British Fictions Of The Sixties: The Making Of The Swinging Decade (Continuum Literary Studies)

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British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major sociopolitical changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if next to its contemporary sociopolitical history its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital constituent in the understanding of the decade Groes uncovers a major epistemological shift and presents a powerful metanarrative about postwar literature in the UK and beyondBritish Fictions of the Sixties offers a reexamination of canonical writers such as Iris Murdoch Angela Carter Muriel Spark and John Fowles It also pays critical attention to avantgarde writers including Ann Quinn Bridget Brophy Eva Figes Christine BrookeRose and J G Ballard presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination