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Literature of the 1950s : Good, Brave Causes: Volume 6 / Alice Ferrebe.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain : EH20CLBPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 10 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748631667
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.900914 23
LOC classification:
  • PR471 .F47 2012
  • PR471 .F47 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- General Editor’s Preface -- 1. Introduction: ‘All this, and Everest too!’ -- I. The Voice of the Young -- 2. The Metaphorical Utility of Youth -- 3. First Writing: 1950s Fiction -- 4. Angering Aunt Edna: 1950s Theatre -- II. The Less Deceived -- 5. Women, Children and Home -- 6. The Sensation of Movement: Poetry in the 1950s -- 7. Evil Men: Literature and Homosexuality -- III. Postwar Settlements -- 8. Coming Home: The Literature of Immigration -- 9. Organic Communities: Regional Literature -- 10. The Scholarship Class: Literature and Social Mobility -- IV. Other Uses of Literacy -- 11. Criticism Under Scrutiny -- 12. The Dedicated Man: Publishing, Media and Reviewing -- 13. Where East Meets West: Literature, the New Left and the Cold War -- 14. Conclusions: Decade Talk -- Works Cited -- Works Cited
Summary: Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.Alice Ferrebe's lively study rereads the decade and its literature as crucial in twentieth-century British history for its emergent and increasingly complicated politics of difference, as ideas about identity, authority and belonging were tested and contested. By placing a diverse selection of texts alongside those of the established canon of Movement and 'Angry' writing, a literary culture of true diversity and depth is brought into view. The volume characterises the 1950s as a time of confrontation with a range of concerns still avidly debated today, including immigration, education, the challenging behaviour of youth, nuclear threat, the post-industrial and post-imperial legacy, a consumerist economy and a feminist movement hampered by the perceivedly comprehensive nature of its recent success. Contrary to Jimmy Porter's defeatist judgement on his era in John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger, the volume upholds such concerns as 'good, brave causes' indeed. Timely reassessment of a decade and its literature too often dismissed as apathetic and uninspiringComprehensive contextual coverage, situating texts within the wider cultural, literary and social movements of the eraClose-readings of neglected texts interrogate and extend received judgements on creative activity in the periodTracing of defining themes across genres and national borders provides an innovative and truly inclusive studyKey Words: 1950s literature, politics of difference, Angry Young Men, Movement, literary history
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- General Editor’s Preface -- 1. Introduction: ‘All this, and Everest too!’ -- I. The Voice of the Young -- 2. The Metaphorical Utility of Youth -- 3. First Writing: 1950s Fiction -- 4. Angering Aunt Edna: 1950s Theatre -- II. The Less Deceived -- 5. Women, Children and Home -- 6. The Sensation of Movement: Poetry in the 1950s -- 7. Evil Men: Literature and Homosexuality -- III. Postwar Settlements -- 8. Coming Home: The Literature of Immigration -- 9. Organic Communities: Regional Literature -- 10. The Scholarship Class: Literature and Social Mobility -- IV. Other Uses of Literacy -- 11. Criticism Under Scrutiny -- 12. The Dedicated Man: Publishing, Media and Reviewing -- 13. Where East Meets West: Literature, the New Left and the Cold War -- 14. Conclusions: Decade Talk -- Works Cited -- Works Cited

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Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.Alice Ferrebe's lively study rereads the decade and its literature as crucial in twentieth-century British history for its emergent and increasingly complicated politics of difference, as ideas about identity, authority and belonging were tested and contested. By placing a diverse selection of texts alongside those of the established canon of Movement and 'Angry' writing, a literary culture of true diversity and depth is brought into view. The volume characterises the 1950s as a time of confrontation with a range of concerns still avidly debated today, including immigration, education, the challenging behaviour of youth, nuclear threat, the post-industrial and post-imperial legacy, a consumerist economy and a feminist movement hampered by the perceivedly comprehensive nature of its recent success. Contrary to Jimmy Porter's defeatist judgement on his era in John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger, the volume upholds such concerns as 'good, brave causes' indeed. Timely reassessment of a decade and its literature too often dismissed as apathetic and uninspiringComprehensive contextual coverage, situating texts within the wider cultural, literary and social movements of the eraClose-readings of neglected texts interrogate and extend received judgements on creative activity in the periodTracing of defining themes across genres and national borders provides an innovative and truly inclusive studyKey Words: 1950s literature, politics of difference, Angry Young Men, Movement, literary history

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