Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - includingjazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and mass cultures -and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.
Acknowledgements; Note on notes; A new introduction - Ideology and Commitment: A Personal; Account; Foreword to the Second Edition; The Politics and Cultures of discord (1997); 1. Introduction; 2. War stories; 3. Literature and cultural production; 4. Class/culture/welfare; 5. Queers, treachery and the literary establishment; 6. Freedom and the Cold War; 7. Cultural plunder and the savage within; 8. Making a scene; 9. Reinventing Modernism; 10. Women writing: Sylvia Plath; 11. The rise of Left-culturism; 12. Intellectuals and workers; 13. The ways we live now; List of books and articles cited; Indexes.
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