British Fictions of the Sixties The Making of the Swinging Decade

by Groes, Sebastian

• ISBN13: 9780826495570
• ISBN10: 0826495575
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-05-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book charts how the dramatic socio-political changes that marked the decade impacted on the development of fiction during the 1960s.

Author Biography

Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is the editor series editor of Bloomsbury's Contemporary Critical Perspectives series, the editor of Ian McEwan (2013), and co-editor of Kazuo Ishiguro (2009) and Julian Barnes (2011), all published by Bloomsbury. His monograph The Making of London (2011) traces the representation of London in contemporary fiction.

Table of Contents

Preface Foreword ChronologyIntroduction: Tiny Revolutions of the Mind 1. Class Issues in the Work of Maureen Duffy and David Storey 2. Realism Renegotiated: Margaret Drabble and Angus Wilson 3. 'A whirling world of words': the Modernist Style in Maureen Duffy; Anthony Burgess; and Iris Murdoch 4. Senses of Endings: Play with Plots in the Work of Muriel Spark and John Fowles 5. The Anti-Novels of Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quinn and Rayner Heppenstall 6. New Wave and the New Worlds of J. G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and Brian Aldiss 7. Women and Agency in the Work of Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark 8. Ethnicity in the Work of Colin MacInnes and Jean Rhys 9. Swinging London unmasked: Anthony Burgess; Sheena MacKay'; and Maureen Duffy Conclusion Bibliography Index