Literature of the 1950s: Good, Brave Causes

Alice Ferrebe's lively study rereads the decade and its literature as crucial in 20th-century British history for its emergent and increasingly complicated politics of difference, as ideas about identity, authority and belonging were tested and contested. By placing a diverse selection of texts alongside those of the established canon of Movement and 'Angry' writing, a literary culture of true diversity and depth is brought into view.