Literature of the 1980s : : After the Watershed: Volume 9 / / Joseph Brooker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Brooker, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain : EH20CLB
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 9 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Illustrations --; General Editor’s Preface --; Introduction: After the Watershed --; Chapter One. Generations --; Chapter Two. Disaffections --; Chapter Three. Modes --; Chapter Four. Belongings --; Chapter Five. Commitments --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748633968; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748633968
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joseph Brooker.

Provides a vibrant account of the diverse literature from a decade which left Britain a very different placeJoseph Brooker relates developments in fiction, poetry and drama to social change – from the new generation of London novelists such as Martin Amis and Ian McEwan to the impact of feminism in the fiction of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. Brooker also considers Black British writers and the fate of working-class writing in the age of Thatcherism. Literature of the 1980s provides a vibrant account of the diversity of writing from a decade which left Britain a very different place.