导语

  

    《英国的没落？》的作者是英国爱丁堡大学英国文学、语言和文化系的兰德尔·史蒂文森(Randall Stevenson)教授，与传统的文学史不同，《英国的没落？》关注的焦点是这一历史时期的文化背景，分为“历史”、“诗歌”、“戏剧”和“小说”四大部分。

内容提要

  

    本书关注的焦点是1960-2000年这一历史时期的文化背景，分历史、诗歌、戏剧和小说四大部分，总结和归纳了20世纪最后40年英国文学的主要流派和特点，是对当代英国文学感兴趣的读者的首选读物。

General Editor's Preface
List of Figures
A Note on References
Introduction: Last Things First
Part Ⅰ Histories
1. 'Gleaming Twilight': Literature, Culture, and Society
2. A Postmodern Age? Literature, Ideas, and Traditions
     Ⅰ. The End of the Modern
     Ⅱ. Modernist and Other Legacies
3. An Age of Theory? Critics, Readers, and Authors
4. A Golden Age? Readers, Authors, and the Book Trade
     Ⅰ. The More Common Reader
     Ⅱ. Commerce and Conscience, Ledgers and Literature
Part Ⅱ Poetry
5. Movement or Revival: The Late r95os to the 1980s
6. Counter-movements and Modernist Memories:1960 to the 1980s
7. Politics and Postmodernism: The Late I970s to 2000
8. Rosebay Revived: Language, Form, and Audience for 'This Unpopular Art'
Part Ⅲ Drama
9. A Public Art Form: The Late 1950s to the 1970s
10. Last Year in Jerusalem: Politics and Performance after 1968
11. 'Real Revolutionaries': Politics and the Margins
12. Absurdism, Postmodernism, Individualism
13. Discovering the Body
14. Revolution, Television, Subsidy
Part Ⅳ Narrative
15. To the Crossroads: Style and Society in the 1960s and 1970s
16. A Darker Route: Morality and History in the 1960s and 1970s
17. Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible: The 1970s to 2000
18. 'Double Lives': Women's Writing and Gender Difference
19. 'The Century of Strangers': Travellers and Migrants
20. Genres, Carnivals, Conclusions
Author Bibliographies
Suggestions for Further Reading
Works Cited
Index