Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (Continuum Impacts, 35)

This volume offers an 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 - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and mass cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance.
Alan Sinfield (1941-) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established him as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar culture and society. 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, and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author, specially written for the Impact edition. 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.

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 - including jazz 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.

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 - including jazz 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. Offers an account of political change since 1945, and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. This book looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance.