'Brooker's ability to represent such a wide range of literary and
cultural texts within a coherent structure is no small feat. [...]
The real strength of the book lies in its ability to provide such
an impressively thorough account of a wide range of texts alongside
some impassioned and convincing close readings of so many of them.
Brooker is doing much more than simply defining, checking or
expanding the shifting canons of eighties literature: his literary
readings and his sense of the period make both available to us
anew.' Nicky Marsh, Textual Practice 'Joseph Brooker's book manages
the admirable task of introducing and even historicising a period
whose legacy is just beginning to be understood. Ranging from
Derrida to Duran Duran, he provides an exemplary work of literary
and cultural history, while braiding politics and literature
together in revealing close readings of key authors and texts. This
is a brave, lucid and richly informed book, necessary reading for
anyone interested in understanding a tumultuous period in the
cultural history of these islands.' Ray Ryan, author of Writing in
the Irish Republic and co-editor, The Good of the Novel Joseph
Brooker relates developments in fiction, poetry and drama to social
change - from the new generation of London novelists such as Martin
Amis and Ian McEwan to the impact of feminism in the fiction of
Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. Brooker also considers Black
British writers and the fate of working-class writing in the age of
Thatcherism. Literature of the 1980s provides a vibrant account of
the diversity of writing from a decade which left Britain a very
different place.
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