ENGLISH LITERATURE AFTER WORLD WAR II (1945-1990)
Abstract
This article tries to analyze the English literature after WWII dividing the period into two parts: the first is the so-called period of “postwar settlement”, and the second began in 1979 with the beginning of M. Thatcher’s premiership. The first period was a combination of social and moral reform, the emancipation of morals - which I assess mainly as progressive - with a huge economic failure, with the failure of hopes for the possibility of a planned economy, which grew so unrealistically throughout the fifties, while the 1970s were just as controversial, widespread dissemination of new modern models, which relatively recently were the property of only the middle class.
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