Orwell to the present : Literature in england 1945-2000
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2017Description: x,244p. PB 21x13cmISBN: 9781137611932Subject(s): English LiteratureDDC classification: 820.900914 Summary: This essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history, and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new 'maps' of English culture and society. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 combines original readings of familiar texts with wide-ranging explorations of the principal themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the end of the Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Pat Barker, John Betjeman, Edward Bond, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Graham Swift and Evelyn WaughItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book | St Aloysius College PG Library | MA English | 820.900914 BRAO (Browse shelf) | Available | PG024114 |
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820.9007 CHAC Cambridge history of English romantic literature | 820.9008 BEHV Victorian literature Criticism and debates | 820.9008 CROO Oxford student texts victorian literature. | 820.900914 BRAO Orwell to the present : Literature in england 1945-2000 | 820.900914 DIML Modern British literature. V1 A-G. | 820.900914 DIML Modern British literature. V2 H-O. | 820.900914 DIML Modern British literature. V3 P-Z. |
This essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history, and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new 'maps' of English culture and society.
Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 combines original readings of familiar texts with wide-ranging explorations of the principal themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the end of the Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Pat Barker, John Betjeman, Edward Bond, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh
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