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English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the sixties, and throughout the rest of the century. Drama thrived on its rapidly rebuilt foundations. New freedoms of style and form revitalized fiction. Poetry, too, gradually recovered the variety and inventiveness of earlier years. As well as comprehensively charting these changes in the literary field, Randall Stevenson persuasively pinpoints their origins in the historical, social, and intellectual pressures of the times. Literary developments are revealingly related to the wider evolution and profound changes in English experience in the late twentieth century -- to shadows of war and loss of empire; declining influences of class; shifting relations between the genders; emergent minority and counter-cultures; and the broadening democratization of contemporary life in general. Analyses of the rise of literary theory, of publishing and the book trade, and of the pervasive influences of modernism and postmodernism contribute further to an impressively thorough, insightful description of writing in the later twentieth century -- a literary period Stevenson shows to be far more imaginative and exciting than has yet been recognized. Lucid, accessible, and engaging, this volume of the Oxford English Literary History presents a unique illumination of its age -- one we have lived through, but are only just beginning to understand. The first full account of its period, it will set the agenda for discussion of late twentieth-century literature for many years to come.

English literature --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1990-1999 --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Engeland --- 820 <09> --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... --- 820 <09> Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van .. --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van . --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- GUIDES, MANUELS, ETC.

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Fiction --- English literature --- Roman anglais --- --XXe s., --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Groot-Brittannie --- XXe s., 1901-2000

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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, andfrequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question familiar

English literature --- War and literature. --- War in literature. --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Literature and war --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war.

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English fiction --- Modernism (Literature) --- Roman anglais --- Modernisme (Littérature) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique