دانلود کتاب The 1950s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

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Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nContributors\nSeries Editors’ Preface\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: The 1950s: A Decade of Change\n The postwar consensus\n Social change and everyday life\n Fiction, the New Left and the birth of cultural studies\n The 1950s: A decade of modern British fiction\n Notes\n Works cited\n1 ‘The Choices of Master Samwise’: Rethinking 1950s Fiction\n ‘Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age’\n The legacy of the 1930s\n John Sommerfield and the politics of social representation\n Cosy catastrophes and generational changes 4\n ‘Forget the story’ 6\n Notes\n Works cited\n2 Angry Young Men? A Product of Their Time\n Works cited\n3 ‘Mere bird-watching indeed’: Feminist Anthropology and 1950s Female Fiction\n Kinship and village life\n Debutantes at native dances\n The ‘reformer’s science’\n Works cited\n4 ‘Is it a queer book?’: Re- reading the 1950s Homosexual Novel\n Under surveillance: homosexuality, the media and the police\n Social problem, private affairs\n Comic turns: seriousness and the homosexual novel\n Works cited\n5 A Vision of the Future: Race and Anti-Racism in 1950s British Fiction\n Racism and anti-racism in postwar Britain\n Writing the Caribbean from exile\n The Caribbean novel of arrival\n Writing white anti-racism\n Conclusion: some visions of the future\n Notes\n Works cited\n6 Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On: The Politics of Youth in 1950s Fiction\n Youthquake\n Teenage rampage\n Teddy boys\n Birth of the Cool\n Bohemians, beatniks and bums\n Calypso\n Conclusion\n Notes\n Works cited\n7 Detective Fiction and the Prose of Everyday Life: Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh and Gladys Mitchell in the 1950s\n Wreaking havoc: Allingham’s The Tiger in the Smoke\n Mysterious autoethnographies\n Christie in the 1950s\n Insiders and outsiders: Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced (1950)\n The detective as dramaturg; the detective as clinician\n Detective fiction and modern form\n Works Cited\n Detective fiction and modern form\n8 Chance in the Canon: Uncertainty and the Literary Establishment of the 1950s\n The chance to rebuild\n Freedom and fear: the politicization of chance\n The angry dissentients\n Falling against structuring structures\n A contradictory novel tradition\n A burgeoning aleatory style\n Performing a culture of contradiction\n Works cited\nTimeline of Works\nTimeline of National Events\nTimeline of International Events\nBiographies of Writers\nIndex\n A\n B\n C\n D\n E\n F\n G\n H\n I\n J\n K\n L\n M\n N\n O\n P\n Q\n R\n S\n T\n U\n V\n W\n Y