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Book SynopsisOffers an account of political change since 1945, and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. This book looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance.
Trade Review"'this book is astonishingly refreshing...Sinfield has done many things here, but one outstanding achievement of his new work is to help any student looking into contextual literary study that 'background' is often a bundle of multiple sources of textual meanings. Any superficial look into it is dangerous.' The Lecturer 'A remarkable account' Fredric Jameson"
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on notes; A new introduction - Ideology and Commitment: A Personal; Account; Foreword to the Second Edition; The Politics and Cultures of discord (1997); 1. Introduction; 2. War stories; 3. Literature and cultural production; 4. Class/culture/welfare; 5. Queers, treachery and the literary establishment; 6. Freedom and the Cold War; 7. Cultural plunder and the savage within; 8. Making a scene; 9. Reinventing Modernism; 10. Women writing: Sylvia Plath; 11. The rise of Left-culturism; 12. Intellectuals and workers; 13. The ways we live now; List of books and articles cited; Indexes.
