Literature and Cultural Criticism in the 1950s

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The Feeling Male Body

ISBN: 1403941068
ISBN 13: 9781403941060
Autor: Brook, S
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: ix, 197 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.2007
Auflage: 1/2007
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Re-reads well-known literature by male writers in the 1950s in light of gender, and of cultural criticism of the periodBrings together the cultural criticism and literature of the 1950s in new waysDiscusses well-studied texts including Lucky Jim and The Golden Notebook alongside lesser-known texts such as The L-Shaped RoomFocuses on the politics of emotion and affectArgues for the significance of women writers in the period – very little written on women writers in the 1950s to date

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Beschreibung

This study charts the origins of the exclusion in the 1950s focusing on the fifties cultural criticism associated with the New Left; the writing of the so-called 'Angry Young Man' (as in Lucky Jim and Look Back in Anger ); and the much overlooked category of women's writing of the period and writing of the time was shaped by gender.

Autorenporträt

SUSAN BROOK is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancover, Canada. Her research interests include postwar British fiction, cultural theory, especially feminist and gender theory, and urban studies, especially suburbia. She has published articles in Hanif Kureishi, Lynne Reid Banks and John Osborne.

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