目录 General Editor's Preface List of Figures A Note on References Introduction: Last Things First Part Ⅰ Histories 1. 'Gleaming Twilight': Literature, Culture, and Society 2. A Postmodern Age? Literature, Ideas, and Traditions Ⅰ. The End of the Modern Ⅱ. Modernist and Other Legacies 3. An Age of Theory? Critics, Readers, and Authors 4. A Golden Age? Readers, Authors, and the Book Trade Ⅰ. The More Common Reader Ⅱ. Commerce and Conscience, Ledgers and Literature Part Ⅱ Poetry 5. Movement or Revival: The Late 1950s to the 1980s 6. Counter-movements and Modernist Memories:1960 to the 1980s 7. Politics and Postmodernism: The Late 1970s to 2000 8. Rosebay Revived: Language, Form, and Audience for 'This Unpopular Art' Part Ⅲ Drama 9. A Public Art Form: The Late 195os to the 1970s 10. Last Year in Jerusalem: Politics and Performance after 1968 11. 'Real Revolutionaries': Politics and the Margins 12. Absurdism, Postmodernism, Individualism 13. Discovering the Body 14. Revolution, Television, Subsidy Part Ⅳ Narrative 15. To the Crossroads: Style and Society in the 1960s and 1970s 16. A Darker Route: Morality and History in the 1960s and 1970s 17. Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible: The 1970s to 2000 18. 'Double Lives': Women's Writing and Gender Difference 19. 'The Century of Strangers': Travellers and Migrants 20. Genres, Carnivals, Conclusions Author Bibliographies Suggestions for Further Reading Works Cited Index
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