Radical Fictions; The English Novel in the 1950s

ISBN-13: 9783039109340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 330 str.

Bentley, Nick

Spis treści

Contents: Back to the Fifties - The Fifties Novel in Context - Form and Ideology in the Fifties Novel - The Early New Left: Class Revision - Anger Management: Kingsley Amis and John Wain - Muriel Spark: Exploring Fictions - Alan Sillitoe: Realism and the (Ir)responsibility of Writing - Colin MacInnes: Subcultural Fictions - Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners - Identity Parades.

O autorze

The Author: Nick Bentley read English and History and took an M.A. in twentieth-century British fiction at Keele University where he now lectures in English Literature and Cultural Theory. He gained his doctorate on 1950s British fiction in 2001. He has held previous posts at Birmingham University, the Open University and Staffordshire University. His main research interests are in critical theory and twentieth-century literature, especially in the interconnections between postmodernism, postcolonialism and post-World War II British fiction.