1960s

Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the annual Hillingdon Literary Festival held at Brunel.James Riley is Fellow and College Lecturer in English Literature at Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK.Melanie Seddon is an independent researcher specialising in British post-war literature and culture. She was formerly based at the Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth as a lecturer in 20th-century literature.

These essays explore 1960s British fiction within the historical and cultural context of the decade to convey why the selected works were influential at the time and why they continue to give insight into postwar and postcolonial Britain … Features include three helpful timelines: major works of the 1960s, key national events, and significant international events. Revisiting the richness of 1960s British fiction gives new insights into the life and changing culture of the time, particularly for those who did not experience this exuberant decade first-hand.

• Series Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsSurfing the Sixties: A Critical IntroductionPhilip Tew (Brunel University, UK), James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK) and Melanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK)1. Our Troubled Youth: A Literary History of the 1960sMelanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK)2. The Housewife and the Single Girl as Archetypes in Satirical Novels of the 1960sJoseph Darlington (University of Salford, UK)3. British Women's Fiction of the 1960sTracey Hargreaves (University of Leeds, UK)4. Certain Circles: Gay Fiction and Cultural Attitudes of the 1960sYvonne Salmon (University of Cambridge, UK)5. Ways of Staying, Ways of Saying: From Black Writing in Britain to Black British WritingGraham Riach (University of Cambridge, UK)6. The 1960s Existential Fiction of John FowlesMichelle Phillips Buchberger (Miami University, USA)7. Experimental British Fiction of the Sixties: Five Meta-modern NovelistsPhilip Tew (Brunel University London, UK)8. Inner Space Odyssey: Suburban Spaceman and the Cults of CatastropheJames Reich (Santa Fe University of Art and Design, USA)9. Terminal Data: J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and the Fiction of the Decade's EndJames Riley (University of Cambridge, UK)Timeline of WorksTimeline of National EventsTimeline of International EventsBiographies of WritersIndex