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
