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Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
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Literary TheoryAlan SinfieldPolitical LiteratureBritish LiteratureEarly American LiteraturePopular CultureCultural StudiesAmerican LiteratureComparative LiteratureLiterary CriticismImpact EditionLanguage StudiesWorld LiteraturesLiterary PeriodizationLiterary StudyPost-colonial CriticismImaginative WritingLiterary HistoryPostwar BritainEnglish CultureArtsModernity
Alan Sinfield, a Professor of English at the University of Sussex, is the author of the book. The edition features a new foreword written by Sinfield specifically for the Impact edition. The book established Sinfield as a leading critic, offers a landmark analysis of post‑war political change and its influence on culture, examines literature’s intersections with other cultural forms, and discusses the rise of American cultural dominance.
Alan Sinfield (1941-) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established him as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar culture and society. Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms, and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author, specially written for the Impact edition.