Useless Activity – Work, Leisure and British Avant–Garde Fiction, 1960–1975 Webb
Useless ActivityWork, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975\nAuthor(s): Christopher Webb\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781800854635, 978-1800854635\nSynopsis\nUsing a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, [tel] is the first study to ask why the experimental writing of the 1960s and 1970s appears so fraught with anxiety about its own uselessness, before suggesting that this very anxiety was symptomatic of a unique period in British literary history when traditional notions about literary work and what 'worked' in terms of literature were being radically scrutinised and\nreassessed. The study is divided into five chapters with three of those dedicated to the close analysis of work produced by three writers representative of the 1960s.
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