TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferrebe,Alice
TI  - Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes: Volume 6 
T2  - The Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain : EH20CLB
SN  - 9780748631667
AV  - PR471 .F47 2012
U1  - 820.900914 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - English literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748631667
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748631667
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748631667/original
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