TitleLiterary Politics : the Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics / edited by Deborah Philips, Professor in Literature and Cultural History, University of Brighton, UK, and Katy Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Brighton, UK
ImprintHoundmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Descript xii, 207 pages ; 23 cm

CONTENT

1. Introduction: The politics of literature and the literature of politics / Deborah Philips -- 2. Literature and politics / Stuart Laing -- 3. Shakespeare v The BNP / Adam Hansen -- 4. Roaring boys and weeping men: radical masculinity in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi / Kate Aughterson -- 5. Having the last word: World War I fictions as counter-narratives / Zacharoula Christopoulou 6. "Show an Affirming Flame": writers and readers in modern dark times / Rosalind Brunt -- 7. Literature, Politics And History / Paddy Maguire -- 8. The Politics of Nostalgia in the Rural English Novel / Dominic Head -- 9. (Re)Writing the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike / Katy Shaw 10. Can the environment be saved? Post-apocalyptic children's novels of the 1980s / Dave Simpson -- 11. Access all areas? Literature and education / Steve Roberts -- 12. The politics of enhancement: the last days of the English Subject Centre / Ben Knights


SUBJECT

  1. Politics and literature
  2. Politics in literature

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