British Literature in Transition, 1960–1980: Flower Power (Hardcover)

Part I. Ventures in Form: 1. Error and experiment in the 1960s British novel Julia Jordan; 2. 'A different inclusiveness': reading poetry from the group to the British poetry revival Hannah Brooks-Motl; 3. 'A revolutionary proposal': Alexander Trocchi, dramaturgies of disruption and situationist genealogies Grant Tyler Peterson; Part II. Emergent Identities: 4. 'Sight, sounds and meaning': voice/print transitions in black British poetry Rachael Gilmour; 5. Fate and freedom in the fiction of the second wave Abigail Rine Favale; 6. Affluence and its discontents: working-class literature of the 1960s and 1970s Katy Shaw; 7. Coming out: the emergence of gay literature Alison Hennegan; Part III. Changing Minds: 8. From countryside to environment: reaching common ground Terry Gifford; 9. Nostalgia and the elegiac mode Marina MacKay; 10. The spiderhood: psychedelic literature, literary psychedelia and the writing of LSD James Riley; 11. 'Little things': writing the sexual revolution Claire O'Callaghan; 12. Inhuman factors: the intelligence of British spy fiction David Pascoe; Part IV. Local and Regional Developments; 13. In and out of the nation: Poetry Wales in the 1960s and 1970s Matthew Jarvis; 14. Performing on the fringe: Basil Bunting and Morden Tower Edward Allen; 15. Rejecting the knitted claymore: the challenge to cultural nationalism in Scottish literary magazines of the 1960s and 1970s Eleanor Bell; 16. Oh so loinerly: geographical transitions and the struggle to belong in Tony Harrison's The Loiners Rory Waterman; 17. The end of 'home': Heaney, Muldoon and the return of the dead Peter Mackay; Part V. Individual Transitions: 18. Iris Murdoch: an anatomy of failure James Clements; 19. Larkin's light Kate McLoughlin; 20. 'Operating on life, not in it': gender and relationships in the plays of Harold Pinter Mark Taylor-Batty; 21. 'The small box': Ted Hughes and the figure of the child S. J. Perry; 22. Caryl Churchill and the vectors of unhappiness Rachel Clements.