Cynicism in British Post-War Culture : Ignorance, Dust and Disease
ISBN: 9781137444356
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Social Science;

This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture, and encompasses figures such as Philip Larkin, John Lennon and Stephen Patrick Morrissey.

Kieran Curran is from Galway in the west of Ireland. He is a scholar of Cultural Studies and currently works in the English Literature department at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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