S. Brook

Literature and Cultural Criticism in the 1950s

The Feeling Male Body

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Produktbeschreibung

This study charts the origins of the exclusion in the 1950s focusing on the fifties cultural criticism associated with the New Left; the writing of the so-called 'Angry Young Man' (as in Lucky Jim and Look Back in Anger ); and the much overlooked category of women's writing of the period and writing of the time was shaped by gender.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-4106-0
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 197
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781403941060
• ISBN-10: 1403941068
• Artikelnr.: 22169618

Autorenporträt

SUSAN BROOK is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancover, Canada. Her research interests include postwar British fiction, cultural theory, especially feminist and gender theory, and urban studies, especially suburbia. She has published articles in Hanif Kureishi, Lynne Reid Banks and John Osborne.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Feeling Male Body From Dream Boy to Scholarship Boy: The New Left, Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams Affect and Politics in Lucky Jim and Look Back in Anger Consumption and Masochism in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Room at the Top Angry Young Women?: The L-Shaped Room, A Taste of Honey, and The Golden Notebook From Motorbikes to Male Strippers: The Persistence of the Feeling Male Body Conclusion: In Search of the Real Bibliography Index