{"product_id":"the-routledge-guide-to-modern-english-writing-britain-and-ireland-9780415286367","title":"The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot, Sylvia Plath published \u003cem\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Beatles were in their prime. This was a changing world, which British and Irish writers both contributed to and reflected in drama, poetry and prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing\u003c\/em\u003e  tells the story of British and Irish writing from 1963 to the present.  From the first performance of Tom Stoppard''s \u003cem\u003eRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead\u003c\/em\u003e in the 1960s to lad novels and Chick Lit in the twenty-first century, the authors guide the reader through the major writers, genres and developments in English writing over the past forty years. Providing an in-depth overview of the main genres and extensive treatment of a wide range of writers including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Angela Carter, Benjamin Zephaniah and Nick Hornby, this highly readable handbook also offers notes on language issues, quotations from selected works, a timeline and a guide to other works.\u003cbr\u003eW","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402087014743,"sku":"9780415286367","price":68.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-routledge-guide-to-modern-english-writing-britain-and-ireland-9780415286367","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}