Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

British literature in transition, 1980-2000 : accelerated times / edited by Eileen Pollard, Berthold Schoene.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: British literature in transitionPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 373 pages.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316344071 (electronic bk.)
  • 131634407X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 820.9/00914 23
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I: Transitions. The ends of postmodernism / Peter Boxall -- Historical fiction and political regeneration / Dougal Mcneill -- Strategies of survival in experimental poetry / Luke Roberts -- Dramatic evolutions/bodily violations / Nadine Holdsworth -- No such thing as society: the novel under neoliberalism / Eileen Pollard and Berthold Schoene -- Part II: Nation. Black British writing: from gulags to ships / Henghameh Saroukhani -- Working-class writing and the decline of class consciousness / Nick Bentley -- Northern radical theatre and community performance / Phil O'Brien -- "Pit closure as art": poetry from the North of England / James Underwood -- The road to Tollund: Northern Ireland's literature of transformation / Richard Kirkland -- Entangled (k)nots: reconceptualizing the nation in Scottish devolution writing / Carla Sassi -- Part III: Society. Inter-feminism/s: women writing back to the future / Diana Wallace -- The rise of ladlit and chicklit / Imelda Whelehan -- "A gay story, a history": gay male liberation and queer rumination / Allan Johnson -- "Searching for something": the post-secular faiths of British fiction / Andrew Tate -- Dystopia and euphoria: time-space compression and the city / Alexander Beaumont -- Part IV: Acceleration. Coded networks: literature and the information technology revolution / Anna Mcfarlane -- Nature's history? Environmentalism and the nature novel / John Parham -- Like any other commodity? Literary prize culture, commercialization, and the rise of a new reading public / Caroline Edwards -- Making sense of the world: literature and globalisation / Philip Leonard.
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Transitions. The ends of postmodernism / Peter Boxall -- Historical fiction and political regeneration / Dougal Mcneill -- Strategies of survival in experimental poetry / Luke Roberts -- Dramatic evolutions/bodily violations / Nadine Holdsworth -- No such thing as society: the novel under neoliberalism / Eileen Pollard and Berthold Schoene -- Part II: Nation. Black British writing: from gulags to ships / Henghameh Saroukhani -- Working-class writing and the decline of class consciousness / Nick Bentley -- Northern radical theatre and community performance / Phil O'Brien -- "Pit closure as art": poetry from the North of England / James Underwood -- The road to Tollund: Northern Ireland's literature of transformation / Richard Kirkland -- Entangled (k)nots: reconceptualizing the nation in Scottish devolution writing / Carla Sassi -- Part III: Society. Inter-feminism/s: women writing back to the future / Diana Wallace -- The rise of ladlit and chicklit / Imelda Whelehan -- "A gay story, a history": gay male liberation and queer rumination / Allan Johnson -- "Searching for something": the post-secular faiths of British fiction / Andrew Tate -- Dystopia and euphoria: time-space compression and the city / Alexander Beaumont -- Part IV: Acceleration. Coded networks: literature and the information technology revolution / Anna Mcfarlane -- Nature's history? Environmentalism and the nature novel / John Parham -- Like any other commodity? Literary prize culture, commercialization, and the rise of a new reading public / Caroline Edwards -- Making sense of the world: literature and globalisation / Philip Leonard.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.