The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

by Philip Tew

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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction?

Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:144112649X

ISBN13:9781441126498

Release Date:April 2014

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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