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This volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a range of authors, texts, genres and movements.
List of contents
Part I. Ventures in Form: 1. Error and experiment in the 1960s British novel Julia Jordan; 2. 'A different inclusiveness': reading poetry from the group to the British poetry revival Hannah Brooks-Motl; 3. 'A revolutionary proposal': Alexander Trocchi, dramaturgies of disruption and situationist genealogies Grant Tyler Peterson; Part II. Emergent Identities: 4. 'Sight, sounds and meaning': voice/print transitions in black British poetry Rachael Gilmour; 5. Fate and freedom in the fiction of the second wave Abigail Rine Favale; 6. Affluence and its discontents: working-class literature of the 1960s and 1970s Katy Shaw; 7. Coming out: the emergence of gay literature Alison Hennegan; Part III. Changing Minds: 8. From countryside to environment: reaching common ground Terry Gifford; 9. Nostalgia and the elegiac mode Marina MacKay; 10. The spiderhood: psychedelic literature, literary psychedelia and the writing of LSD James Riley; 11. 'Little things': writing the sexual revolution Claire O'Callaghan; 12. Inhuman factors: the intelligence of British spy fiction David Pascoe; Part IV. Local and Regional Developments; 13. In and out of the nation: Poetry Wales in the 1960s and 1970s Matthew Jarvis; 14. Performing on the fringe: Basil Bunting and Morden Tower Edward Allen; 15. Rejecting the knitted claymore: the challenge to cultural nationalism in Scottish literary magazines of the 1960s and 1970s Eleanor Bell; 16. Oh so loinerly: geographical transitions and the struggle to belong in Tony Harrison's The Loiners Rory Waterman; 17. The end of 'home': Heaney, Muldoon and the return of the dead Peter Mackay; Part V. Individual Transitions: 18. Iris Murdoch: an anatomy of failure James Clements; 19. Larkin's light Kate McLoughlin; 20. 'Operating on life, not in it': gender and relationships in the plays of Harold Pinter Mark Taylor-Batty; 21. 'The small box': Ted Hughes and the figure of the child S. J. Perry; 22. Caryl Churchill and the vectors of unhappiness Rachel Clements.
About the author
Kate McLoughlin is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Harris Manchester College. Her publications include Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the 'Iliad' to Iraq (Cambridge, 2011) (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) and Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 (2018) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009), The Modernist Party 2013) and, with Santanu Das, The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity (2018).
Summary
This volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a diverse range of authors, texts, genres and movements. It considers innovations in form, emergent identities, changes in attitudes, preoccupations and in the mind itself, local and regional developments, and shifts within the oeuvres of individual authors.
