Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes

Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780748631667
ISBN-13 : 0748631666
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Book Synopsis Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes by : Alice Ferrebe

Download or read book Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes written by Alice Ferrebe and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.Alice Ferrebe's lively study rereads the decade and its literature as crucial in twentieth-century British history for its emergent and increasingly complicated politics of difference, as ideas about identity, authority and belonging were tested and contested. By placing a diverse selection of texts alongside those of the established canon of Movement and 'Angry' writing, a literary culture of true diversity and depth is brought into view. The volume characterises the 1950s as a time of confrontation with a range of concerns still avidly debated today, including immigration, education, the challenging behaviour of youth, nuclear threat, the post-industrial and post-imperial legacy, a consumerist economy and a feminist movement hampered by the perceivedly comprehensive nature of its recent success. Contrary to Jimmy Porter's defeatist judgement on his era in John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger, the volume upholds such concerns as 'good, brave causes' indeed.


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