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- catalog abstract ""This essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history, and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new 'maps' of English culture and society." "Orwell to the Present Literature in England, 1945-2000 combines original readings of familiar texts with wide-ranging explorations of the principal themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the end of the Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Pat Barker, John Betjeman, Edward Bond, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12750911.
- catalog coverage "England Civilization 1945-".
- catalog coverage "England Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Orwell to the Present Literature in England, 1945-2000 combines original readings of familiar texts with wide-ranging explorations of the principal themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the end of the Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Pat Barker, John Betjeman, Edward Bond, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""This essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history, and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new 'maps' of English culture and society."".
- catalog description "England Revisited -- 'Small Disturbances': England in 1945 -- 'After History': time and memory in postwar writing -- A Literature of Farewell: the condition of England and the politics of elegy -- Making New Maps -- 'Common Ground': feminist fictions and the cultural politics of difference -- From Anger to Blasted: trauma and social representation in contemporary drama -- English Journeys: cultural geographies of contemporary England.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-239) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 244 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0333696166 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0333696174 (paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Transitions (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))".
- catalog isPartOf "Transitions".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "England Civilization 1945-".
- catalog spatial "England Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog subject "820.9/00914 21".
- catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Orwell, George, 1903-1950 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR471 .B68 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "England Revisited -- 'Small Disturbances': England in 1945 -- 'After History': time and memory in postwar writing -- A Literature of Farewell: the condition of England and the politics of elegy -- Making New Maps -- 'Common Ground': feminist fictions and the cultural politics of difference -- From Anger to Blasted: trauma and social representation in contemporary drama -- English Journeys: cultural geographies of contemporary England.".
- catalog title "Orwell to the present : literature in England, 1945-2000 / John Brannigan.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".