British literature in transition, 1980-2000 : accelerated times / edited by Eileen Pollard, Berthold Schoene.
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- 131634407X (electronic bk.)
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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.
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