Literature of the 1950s and 1960s
Edited by Alice Ferrebe and Tracy Hargreaves
Click cover to enlarge Booksellers & libraries: | Yearbook of English Studies 42 Modern Humanities Research Association 1 January 2012 • 252pp ISBN: 978-1-907322-76-1 (paperback) Access online: At JSTOR The Yearbook of English Studies 2012 is devoted to the literature and wider culture of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and is co-edited by Alice Ferrebe (Senior Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University) and Tracy Hargreaves (Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds). In this rich collection, the reader is invited to rediscover these decades as a time of cultural renegotiation and renewal. Insofar as such a critically undervalued period can be said to have a canon, the collection engages with it, reconsidering texts by an assortment of Angry Young Men, as well as the work of Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. Yet its debates range further, from experimental work like that of Samuel Beckett and B. S. Johnson, across popular and middle-brow writing by, for example, Len Deighton, Ian Fleming, and Rose Macaulay, and to neglected authors such as E. R. Braithwaite. Most innovatively, this collection insists that literature should be allowed to speak at close quarters with contemporaneous productions in film, music, television and the fine arts, suggesting striking synergies in their modes of social critique and artistic experimentation. Moreover, it establishes the distinctiveness of these decades of cultural production by interrogating established critical perspectives and bringing to bear strikingly different theoretical lines of vision, most notably upon questions of race, gender, and social mobility. Ferrebe and Hargreaves have brought together a Yearbook which not only urges the reader to re-assess a formative period in the making of modern Britain but also compels us to reflect upon the continuities between these two decades and the political debates we have inherited in the twenty-first century. Contents:
Bibliography entry: Ferrebe, Alice, and Tracy Hargreaves (eds), Literature of the 1950s and 1960s (= Yearbook of English Studies, 42.1 (2012)) First footnote reference: 35 Literature of the 1950s and 1960s, ed. by Alice Ferrebe and Tracy Hargreaves (= Yearbook of English Studies, 42.1 (2012)), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Ferrebe and Hargreaves, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Ferrebe, Alice, and Tracy Hargreaves (eds). 2012. Literature of the 1950s and 1960s (= Yearbook of English Studies, 42.1) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Ferrebe and Hargreaves 2012: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Ferrebe and Hargreaves 2012: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Literature-1950s-1960s www.mhra.org.uk/publications/yes-42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
