The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: The Last of England?

Comprehensively charting developments in the literary field since 1960, Randall Stevenson pinpoints the origins of literary change in the historical, social, and intellectual pressures of the times - to shadows of war and loss of empire; declining influences of class; shifting relations between the genders; emergent minority and counter-cultures; and the broadening democratisation of contemporary life in general. Lucid, accessible, and engaging, this volume of the Oxford English Literary History presents a unique illumination of its age - one we have lived through, but are just beginning to understand. The first full account of its period, it will set the agenda for discussion of late twentieth-century literature for many years to come.