Accelerated Times: British Literature in Transition, 1980-2000
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27-03/270003
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107121423
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- Accelerated Times offers an original contribution to knowledge in its wide range of essays examining British literature of the 1980 to 2000 period. As co-editor, Pollard was involved in commissioning the essays, while the detailed work and research involved to edit and arrange them is clear from the quality of the volume. The essays include ground-breaking work on postmodernism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, class, and theatre and performance, during this turbulent period. The volume contains twenty essays, all of which were edited and assisted through the publication process by Pollard and her co-editor, Professor Berthold Schoene. Published by Cambridge University Press as part of a high-profile series spanning the twentieth-century in twenty-year blocks, this was an exceptional project to be part of, and especially notable as Pollard was an ECR when first contracted as co-editor. The introduction, which Pollard and Schoene co-authored, is an original piece of research that casts light on the specific histories, political shifts, and cultural attitudes, that made the period unique, but also marked the transition from the 1980s into the 1990s and up the millennium – which was one of great acceleration, as the title of the volume suggests. Their co-authored chapter, ‘No Such Thing as Society: The Novel under Neoliberalism’, is likewise an original piece of research that contributes to the overall thrust of the volume by considering the role of Margaret Thatcher in the furthering of neoliberalism in some key novels of the period.
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