General Editor''s Preface xiiiList of Figures xixA Note on References xxiIntroduction: Last Things First 1Part I Histories1. ''Gleaming Twilight'': Literature, Culture, and Society 132. A Postmodern Age? Literature, Ideas, and Traditions 57 I. The End of the Modern 57 II. Modernists and Other Legacies 723. An Age of Theory? Critics, Readers, and Authors 884. A Golden Age? Readers, Authors, and the Book Trade 125 I. The More Common Reader 125 II. Commerce and Conscience, Ledgers and Literature 143Part II Poetry5. Movement or Revival: The Late 1950s to the 1980s 1656. Counter-movements and Modernist Memories: 1960s to the 1980s 1907. Politics and Postmodernism: The Late 1970s to 2000 2108. Rosebay Revived: Language, Form, and Audience for This Unpopular Art 238Part III Drama9. A Public Art Form: The Late 1950s to the 1970s 27310. Last Year in Jerusalem: Politics and Performance after 1968 30111. ''Real Revolutionaries'': Politics and the Margins 33212. Absurdism, Postmodernism, Individualism 34613. Discovering the Body 36714. Revolution, Television, Subsidy 381Part IV Narrative15. To the Crossroads: Style and Society in the 1960s and 1970s 39716. A Darker Route: Morality and History in the 1960s and 1970s 41417. Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible: The 1970s to 2000 43418. ''Double Lives'': Womens Writing and Gender Difference 46119. ''The Century of Strangers'': Travellers and Migrants 47920. Genres, Carnivals, Conclusions 502Author Bibliographies 523Suggestions for Further Reading 581Works Cited 587Index 607