The 1980s : a decade of contemporary British fiction

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Label

The 1980s : a decade of contemporary British fiction

Title remainder

a decade of contemporary British fiction

Statement of responsibility

edited by Emily Horton, Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson

Title variation

Nineteen eighties

Contributor

• Tew, Philip
• Wilson, Leigh
• Horton, Emily

Editor

• Horton, Emily
• Tew, Philip
• Wilson, Leigh

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Englisch
• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
• Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
• Roman

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• "How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail. Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a 'heritage industry' during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural changes. Viewed from the perspective of more recent theorisations of crisis following both 9/11 and the 21st-century financial crash, this study makes sense of why and how writers of the 1980s constructed fictions in response to this decade's own set of fundamental crises"--
• "How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail. Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a 'heritage industry' during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural changes. Viewed from the perspective of more recent theorisations of crisis following both 9/11 and the 21st-century financial crash, this study makes sense of why and how writers of the 1980s constructed fictions in response to this decade's own set of fundamental crises"--

Member of

• Decades series (Bloomsbury (Firm))

Assigning source

• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.91409

Index

index present

LC call number

PR881

LC item number

.A16 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The decades series