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  • Culture Wars in Britain

    The Myth of Exceptionalism and the Reality of Division

    by Nick Hubble ...
    Series series SocietyNow
    The term "culture wars" has taken centre stage in British social and political discourse, characterized by deep divides over values, identity, and sovereignty. These conflicts, driven by class and emancipatory struggles, continue to evolve, highlighting critical divisions over issues such as Brexit, Scottish independence, and attitudes toward the monarchy.Nick Hubble reframes the debate, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The 1920s

    A Decade of Modern British Fiction

    Edited by Tamás Bényei, Shene Boskani, Dr Nick Hubble ...
    Series series The Decades Series
    The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism. This book takes a fresh approach to the decade by examining both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.From the aftermath of First World War to the Great Depression of 1929, and its political ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The 2010s

    A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

    Edited by Emily Horton, Nick Bentley, Dr Nick Hubble, Professor Philip Tew ...
    Series series The Decades Series
    This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of attention and reading.From the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

    Edited by Dr Nick Hubble, Dr Luke Seaber, Dr Elinor Taylor ...
    Series series The Decades Series
    With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generation', this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Growing Old with the Welfare State

    Eight British Lives

    Edited by Dr Nick Hubble, Jennie Taylor, Professor Philip Tew ...
    The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history. As a consequence, the experience of ageing has been transformed. Yet our cultural and social perceptions of ageing remain governed by increasingly dated images and narratives.Growing Old with the Welfare State challenges these stereotypes by bringing together ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question

    by Nick Hubble ...

    $26.99 USD

  • The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

    Edited by Nick Bentley, Dr Nick Hubble, Dr Leigh Wilson ...
    How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction?The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and an economic crisis, transformed the act of writing and reading. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • London in Contemporary British Fiction

    The City Beyond the City

    Edited by Dr Nick Hubble, Professor Philip Tew ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in the City
    Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London landscape for years. This volume brings together their vivid representations of the capital.Uniting the readings are themes such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity of satirical forms ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

    Edited by Dr Nick Hubble, Professor Philip Tew, Dr Leigh Wilson ...
    Series series The Decades Series
    How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction?From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The 1950s

    A Decade of Modern British Fiction

    Edited by Nick Bentley, Dr Alice Ferrebe, Dr Nick Hubble ...
    Series series The Decades Series
    How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction?As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Science Fiction Handbook

    Edited by Dr Nick Hubble, Dr Aris Mousoutzanis ...
    Series series Literature and Culture Handbooks
    As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

    Edited by John McLeod, Dr Nick Hubble, Professor Philip Tew ...
    Series series The Decades Series
    How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction?Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contemporary.Chapters outline the decade's diversity of writing, showing how the literature of Ian McEwan and Ian Sinclair ... Read more

    $29.99 USD