General Editor's Preface xiii List of Figures xix A Note on References xxi Introduction: Last Things First 1 Part I Histories 1. 'Gleaming Twilight': Literature, Culture, and Society 13 2. A Postmodern Age? Literature, Ideas, and Traditions 57 I. The End of the Modern 57 II. Modernists and Other Legacies 72 3. An Age of Theory? Critics, Readers, and Authors 88 4. A Golden Age? Readers, Authors, and the Book Trade 125 I. The More Common Reader 125 II. Commerce and Conscience, Ledgers and Literature 143 Part II Poetry 5. Movement or Revival: The Late 1950s to the 1980s 165 6. Counter-movements and Modernist Memories: 1960s to the 1980s 190 7. Politics and Postmodernism: The Late 1970s to 2000 210 8. Rosebay Revived: Language, Form, and Audience for ‘This Unpopular Art’ 238 Part III Drama 9. A Public Art Form: The Late 1950s to the 1970s 273 10. Last Year in Jerusalem: Politics and Performance after 1968 301 11. 'Real Revolutionaries': Politics and the Margins 332 12. Absurdism, Postmodernism, Individualism 346 13. Discovering the Body 367 14. Revolution, Television, Subsidy 381 Part IV Narrative 15. To the Crossroads: Style and Society in the 1960s and 1970s 397 16. A Darker Route: Morality and History in the 1960s and 1970s 414 17. Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible: The 1970s to 2000 434 18. 'Double Lives': Women’s Writing and Gender Difference 461 19. 'The Century of Strangers': Travellers and Migrants 479 20. Genres, Carnivals, Conclusions 502 Author Bibliographies 523 Suggestions for Further Reading 581 Works Cited 587 Index 607
