The Post-War British Literature Handbook

by Cockin, Katharine; Morrison, Jago

• ISBN13: 9780826495013
• ISBN10: 082649501X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A comprehensive, accessible and lucid coverage of major issues and key figures in modern and contemporary British literature.

Table of Contents

General Editors' Introduction	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Surveying the Field: A Forest of Posts?	p. 1
Post-War	p. 2
Postcolonial	p. 6
Postmodern	p. 9
Postfeminist	p. 13
Posthuman	p. 17
Post-9/11	p. 20
Approaching Post-War British Literature	p. 24
Timeline	p. 25
Contexts	p. 33
The Historical Context of Post-War British Literature	p. 35
Post-War Britain: From Cautious Consensus to Cold War	p. 35
A Literary Cold War: From the 'Less Deceived' to the 'Literature of Extremes'	p. 42
From Sexual Liberation to Identity Politics: The Sixties and After	p. 46
The Break-Up of Britain and the Thatcher Effect	p. 51
From Globalization to Terror	p. 54
Literary and Cultural Contexts	p. 57
Angry Young Man	p. 58
Auto/Biography	p. 58
BBC	p. 59
Blasphemy	p. 59
Book Clubs	p. 60
Booker Prize	p. 60
Censorship	p. 60
Chick Lit	p. 61
Class	p. 61
Comic Novel	p. 62
Copyright	p. 62
Crime fiction	p. 62
Cyberpunk	p. 63
Cyborg	p. 64
Education Act	p. 64
Environmentalism	p. 64
Experimental Novel	p. 65
Feminism	p. 65
Free Verse	p. 66
Gothic	p. 67
Internet Publishing	p. 67
Kitchen Sink Drama	p. 68
Lad Lit	p. 68
Literary Canon	p. 69
Magic Realism	p. 69
Mass Media	p. 70
Metafiction	p. 70
The Movement	p. 71
Obscenity (and Pornography)	p. 71
Open University	p. 71
Orange Prize	p. 72
Nationalism	p. 72
Net Book Agreement	p. 73
Race and Racism	p. 74
Reader Response	p. 74
Regional Novel	p. 75
Science Fiction	p. 76
Small Press Publishing	p. 76
Travel Writing	p. 77
Case Studies	p. 79
Case Studies in Reading Literary Texts	p. 81
Nineteen-Eighty Four (1949)	p. 81
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)	p. 83
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)	p. 85
Nights at the Circus (1984)	p. 87
Money: A Suicide Note (1984)	p. 90
Small Island (2004)	p. 92
Case Studies in-Reading Critical/Theoretical Texts	p. 94
'The Death of the Author' (1968)	p. 94
'Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' (1987)	p. 97
"Sexy Greedy is the Late Eighties": Power Systems in Amis' Money and Churchill's Serious Money' (1990)	p. 99
Simulations (1983)	p. 100
Post-War British Fiction: Realism and After (1995)	p. 102
Critical Approaches	p. 105
Key Critics, Concepts and Topics	p. 107
Key Critics and Theorists	p. 108
Roland Barthes	p. 108
Homi K. Bhabha	p. 109
Malcolm Bradbury	p. 109
Steven Connor	p. 110
Jacques Derrida	p. 110
Frantz Fanon	p. 110
Michel Foucault	p. 111
Dominic Head	p. 111
Jacques Lacan	p. 111
David Lodge	p. 112
Paulina Palmer	p. 112
Lorna Sage	p. 113
Edward Said	p. 113
Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak	p. 114
Randall Stevenson	p. 114
Philip Tew	p. 114
Patricia Waugh	p. 115
Raymond Williams	p. 115
Key Concepts and Topics	p. 115
Abjection	p. 115
Ambivalence	p. 116
Aporia	p. 116
Avant-garde	p. 116
Deconstruction	p. 117
Écriture Féminine	p. 117
Essentialism	p. 117
Grand Narrative	p. 117
Gynocritics	p. 117
Hybridity	p. 117
History	p. 118
Ideology	p. 118
Intertextuality	p. 118
Irony	p. 119
Mimicry	p. 119
Myth	p. 119
Négritude	p. 120
Oedipal Crisis	p. 120
Orientalism	p. 120
Performativity	p. 121
Phallogocentrism	p. 121
Postcolonial Theory	p. 121
Power	p. 121
Semiotic	p. 122
Social Realism	p. 122
Subaltern	p. 122
Symbolic	p. 123
Unconscious	p. 123
Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches	p. 124
Poststructuralism and Postmodernism	p. 125
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism	p. 131
Gender and Sexuality	p. 136
Postcolonialism	p. 141
Psychoanalysis	p. 151
Mapping the Field	p. 159
Issues of Gender and Sexuality	p. 16l
Gender, Sexuality and Post-War Literature	p. 163
Lesbian Feminist Writing	p. 168
Realism and Experimentalism	p. 169
Play and Performativity	p. 171
Herstories	p. 174
Changes in the Canon: After Windrush	p. 177
1950s: Caribbean Voices and Metropolitan Modernism	p. 179
1960s: Commonwealth Literature	p. 182
1970s and 1980s: 'Raj Fictions' and the Radicalization of Minorities	p. 183
Postcolonialism/Postmodernism	p. 187
Cultural Hybridity and Transnational, Globalized Fictions	p. 188
Writing After the Fatwa	p. 191
After 9/11 and 7/7: Writing in an Age of Anxiety	p. 191
Mapping the Current Critical Landscape: Theory-The Final Frontier	p. 194
Literary Criticism	p. 196
Theory	p. 199
Culture Wars	p. 204
Appendix: Teaching, Curriculum and Learning	p. 211
(Available at www.continuumbooks.com/resources/9780826495020)
Teaching Plan: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
Teaching Plan: Poetic Canons
Teaching Plan: Jackie Kay, The Adoption Papers (2005)
Notes on Contributors	p. 213
Annotated Bibliography	p. 217
References	p. 223
Index	p. 239
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