Format:
Book
Author:
Ferrebe, Alice, 1970-
Title:
Literature of the 1950s : good, brave causes / Alice Ferrebe.
Publisher, Date:
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012.
Description:
xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series:
The Edinburgh history of twentieth-century literature in Britain ; v. 6
Edinburgh history of twentieth-century literature in Britain ; v. 6.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Social history.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Great Britain.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
General editor's preface -- Introduction: 'All this, and everest too!' -- The voice of the young. The metaphorical utility of youth -- First writing: 1950s fiction -- Angering Aunt Edna: 1950s theatre -- The less deceived. Women, children and home -- The sensation of movements: poetry in the 1950s -- Evil men: literature and homosexuality -- Postwar settlements. Coming home: the literature of immigration -- Organic communities: regional literature -- The scholarship class: literature and social mobility -- Other uses of literacy. Criticism under scrutiny -- The dedicated man: publishing, media and reviewing -- Where East meets West: literature, the New Left and the Cold War -- Conclusions: Decade talk.
LCCN:
2012451954
ISBN:
9780748627714 (hardback)
0748627715 (hardback)
* 9780748631667 (webready PDF)
* 9780748655311 (epub)
* 9780748655304 (Amazon ebook)
Other Number:
788212919
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
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1
Control Number:
1087079
Call Number:
820.9109 F382
Course Reserves:
0
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