Reaganism, Thatcherism and the Social Novel

Informationen zum Autor COLIN HUTCHINSON is an independent scholar. He received his PhD from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Klappentext The social novel is the traditional haunt of the liberal conscience. What does the triumph of the New Right mean for this type of fiction in Britain and the US? Should the liberal left seek consensus or assertion? This book examines these issues, and assesses the state of both nations, as well as that of the contemporary novel. Zusammenfassung The social novel is the traditional haunt of the liberal conscience. What does the triumph of the New Right mean for this type of fiction in Britain and the US? Should the liberal left seek consensus or assertion? This book examines these issues! and assesses the state of both nations! as well as that of the contemporary novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Reagan, Thatcher and the 1980s Complicity and British Fiction Liberal Guilt and American Fiction The Communitarian Turn Futures and Pasts The Battlefield of the Self Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: C Hutchinson, C. Hutchinson, Colin Hutchinson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2008
• EAN: 9780230210455
• ISBN: 978-0-230-21045-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Fiction & related items, History: specific events & topics, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Political science & theory, Political History, Literary theory, World Politics, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, fiction;Great Britain;novel;Tradition