目录 General Editors Preface xiii List of Figures xix A Note on References xxi Introduction: Last Things First 1 Part I Histories 1. Gleaming Twilight: Literature, Culture, and Society 13 2. A Postmodern Age? Literature, Ideas, and Traditions 57 I.The End of the Modern 57 II.Modernists and Other Legacies 72 3. An Age of Theory? Critics, Readers, and Authors 88 4. A Golden Age? Readers, Authors, and the Book Trade 125 I.The More Common Reader 125 II.Commerce and Conscience, Ledgers and Literature 143 Part II Poetry 5. Movement or Revival: The Late 1950s to the 1980s 165 6. Counter-movements and Modernist Memories: 1960s to the 1980s 190 7. Politics and Postmodernism: The Late 1970s to 2000 210 8. Rosebay Revived: Language, Form, and Audience for ‘This Unpopular Art’ 238 Part III Drama 9. A Public Art Form: The Late 1950s to the 1970s 273 10. Last Year in Jerusalem: Politics and Performance after 1968 301 11. Real Revolutionaries: Politics and the Margins 332 12. Absurdism, Postmodernism, Individualism 346 13. Discovering the Body 367 14. Revolution, Television, Subsidy 381 Part IV Narrative 15. To the Crossroads: Style and Society in the 1960s and 1970s 397 16. A Darker Route: Morality and History in the 1960s and 1970s 414 17. Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible: The 1970s to 2000 434 18. Double Lives: Women’s Writing and Gender Difference 461 19. The Century of Strangers: Travellers and Migrants 479 20. Genres, Carnivals, Conclusions 502 Author Bibliographies 523 Suggestions for Further Reading 581 Works Cited 587 Index 607
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