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Titre(s) : The 1980s [Texte imprimé] : a decade of contemporary British fiction / edited by Emily Horton, Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson
Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2014
Description matérielle : xii-264 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : The decades series
Lien à la collection : The decades series
Comprend : Series editors' preface / Nick Hubble, Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson ; [Notes on]
Contributors ; Critical introduction / Emily Horton, Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson ;
1. Literary history of the decade : the Bomb, kidnappings and yuppies : British fiction
in the 1980s / Emily Horton ; 2. The awakening of Caledonias ? Scottish literature
in the 1980s / Monica Germana ; 3. The art of bad government : Thatcherism and British
fiction / Joseph Brooker ; 4. Postcolonial and diasporic voices 'Black' British women's
fiction in the 1980s / Susan Alice Fischer ; 5. Historical representations : the heritage
industry and historiographic metafiction : historical representation in the 1980s
/ Alex Murray ; 6. Generic discontinuities and variations : crises of authority and
innovations in form and technique in British fiction of the 1980s / Frederick M. Holmes
; 7. International contexts (North America) : the American reception of British fiction
in the 1980s / Brian Finney ; International contexts (Europe) : the Romanian context
: between realism and postmodernism ; Timeline of works ; Timeline of national events
; Timeline of international events ; Biographies of writers ; Index.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary
British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics
and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade
associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham
Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction
is a response to particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored
in detail. Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, contributors
reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics and realism, and between elegy
and satire. Noting the creation of a 'heritage industry' during the decade, the rise
of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural changes. Viewed
from the perspective of more recent theorisations of crisis following both 9/11 and
the 21st-century financial crash, this study makes sense of why and how writers of
the 1980s constructed fictions in response to this decade's own set of fundamental
crises"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Horton, Emily. Éditeur scientifique
Tew, Philip (1954-....). Éditeur scientifique
Wilson, Leigh. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Roman anglais -- 1945-2000
Indice(s) Dewey :
823.914 09 (23e éd.) = Roman de langue anglaise - 1945-1999 - Histoire et critique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781441126498 (hardback). - ISBN 144112649X (hardback). - ISBN 9781441168535
(erroné) (epdf). - ISBN 9781623563509 (erroné) (epub). - ISBN 1441168532 (erroné).
- ISBN 162356350X (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb437750989
Notice n° :
FRBNF43775098
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
