Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel

From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting

AvStephen Ross

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many subcultures of Britain’s teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of the most influential contemporary British writers.In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores:· The manic teenage vision of Absolute Beginners· The Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning· Skinheads and Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange· Irony and authenticity in the 1980s – from Amis to Kureishi· Heroin chic, disaffection and TrainspottingExamining the cultural contexts of some of the most important and popular post-1945 British novels, the book covers such themes as crises of masculinity, multiculturalism and inter-generational conflict, and in doing so casts new light on British writing today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-13
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:549 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350067868

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

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Stephen Ross is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is Past-President of the Modernist Studies Association (2015/16), General Editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism Online and co-editor (with Derek Ryan) of The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (Bloomsbury, 2018).

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Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is a lively contribution to a growing area of postwar and contemporary literary studies. Ross’s style is at once accessible and engaging, and his book offers new ways of thinking about the importance of youth culture to a range of novels from the latter half of the twentieth century.

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One – Angry(-ish) Young(-ish) Men: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Absolute BeginnersChapter Two – Can the Skinhead Speak? A Clockwork OrangeChapter Three – Youth Culture Goes Metastatic: The Rachel Papers and The Buddha of SuburbiaChapter Four – Sojourn in Babylon: The Commitments, Brixton Rock, and East of Acre LaneChapter Five – Rave and Heroin: TrainspottingWorks CitedIndex

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