Finding Books and eBooks in the Library
eBooks
- British Working-Class Writing for Children: Scholarship Boys in the Mid-Twentieth Century (2017)
- The Education of Borstal Boys (1998)
- Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes (2012)
- Prisons and Borstals. Statement of Policy and Practice in the Administration of Prisons and Borstal Institutions in England and Wales. (1957)
- Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951--1970 (2009)
- Teaching Cultural Studies: Methods - Matters - Models (2011)
- Young Men in Detention Centres IIs 213 (1998)
Suggested Search Terms
- Angry Young Men movement
- Juvenile Delinquency (Borstals)
- Post-war England (WWII)
- Working-class and British Literature
Reference Entries
- The Angry Young Men ~British Writers, Supplement 16 (2010) **Critical Essay**
- Borstal Boy (Magill's Survey of World Literature)
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe, 1959 (Reference Guide to Short Fiction)
- Alan Sillitoe ~Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature (2009) **Author Biography**
Books on Reserve (2-Hour In-Library Use)
Anger and After: A Guide to the New British DramaCall Number: Reserves; PR736 .T3 1969ISBN: 0416278205Publication Date: 1969
The Angry Theatre; New British Drama by Call Number: Reserves ; PR 736T3 1969bISBN: 0809026635Publication Date: 1969-01-01
The Angry Years by
What were the achievements of the 'angry' writers who emerged in the fifties? Historically, they gave birth to the satire movement of the 1960s - "Beyond the Fringe", "That Was the Week that Was" and "Private Eye". What were the achievements of the 'angry' writers who emerged in the fifties? Historically, they gave birth to the satire movement of the 1960s-Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week that Was and Private Eye. Their satire and irreverence aroused enthusiasm in man, and a new 'anti-Establishment' mood developed from Look Back in Anger and The Outsider. All literary movements acquire enemies, but the Angry Young Men of the 1950s accumulated more than most. Why? Wilson takes us on a journey back to this era, and reveals fascinating and sometimes disturbing stories from the Greats, including John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, Kenneth Tynan and John Braine-to name but a few. At all events, the story of that period makes a marvellously lively tale which, most importantly, was recorded by someone who was actually there.
Call Number: Reserves; PR471 .W56 2007ISBN: 9781861059727Publication Date: 2007-09-28
The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men by
This is a celebration of the anti-establishment literature of the 1950's. Here you will find the works of Jack Kerouac, Williams Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Kingsley Amis, J. P. Donleavy, Norman Mailer, Colin Wilson and many more. In America they were the beat generation-beaten down or upbeat, depending who you talk to-and in England they were the angry young men-working and middle class writers who were disillusioned with traditional English society. Collectively they stood the literary world on end and paved the way for everything from the women's movement and the hippie counter culture to the sexual revolution. They broke down the doors of censorship and opened the way toward social liberation. They popularized Eastern philosophies, lifestyle tolerance, eco-consciousness and drug experimentation-and war protesting. Some of these authors turned staunchly conservative later in their lives, while others stayed true to their causes and remain popular icons of rebellion and outrage. Over fifty years later, their message still rings clear-Man is not a robot, but a creative, spontaneous living being. The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men voiced their cry, and it is still being heard today.
Call Number: Reserves, PS 536 .B37 2012ISBN: 9781933586465Publication Date: 2012-07-11
In Anger by
Deals with the difficult condition in London puhblishing and British literary life in the 1940s, the leading novelists and poets in the postwar years, the arrival of the Angry Young Men in the theatre in the mid-1950s, and the revival of British painting in these years.
Call Number: Reserves ; DA566.4 .H43 1981ISBN: 0195202384Publication Date: 1981-05-07
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by
This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day. "An astonishing book."--Ian Sansom, The Guardian "A passionate work of history. . . . Rose has written a work of staggering ambition."--Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal Winner of the SHARP Book History Prize, the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize, and the British Council Prize cowinner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize for 2001; named one of the finest books of 2001 by The Economist.
Call Number: Reserves ; Z1039.L3 R67 2021ISBN: 9780300257847Publication Date: 2021-07-20
The Making of the English Working Class by
A seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class--the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England's greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E.P. Thompson's magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain's greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become one of the most influential social commentaries every written.
Call Number: Reserves ; HD8388 .T47 1966ISBN: 9780394703220Publication Date: 1966-02-12
