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1950s : A Decade of Modern British Fiction

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1350620548
ISBN-13 9781350620544
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 19th, 2026
Print length 320 Pages
Weight 486 grams
Dimensions 23.40 x 15.50 x 1.90 cms
Ksh 8,150.00
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A wide-ranging critical survey of British Fiction in the 1950s, from J.R.R. Tolkien to Samuel Beckett, Kingsley Amis, and Iris Murdoch.

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction?

As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the ‘Angry Young Men’, an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers.

A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.


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