Literature and Cultural Criticism in the 1950s: The Feeling Male Body

by Susan Brook

Susan Brook argues that the history of Left literary and cultural criticism in Britain is characterized by a systematic failure to recognize the way it has been shaped by issues of gender, and that it has been marked by a history of romanticizing the feeling male body and excluding the "inauthentic" feminine. This study charts the origins of the exclusion in the 1950s focusing on the fifties cultural criticism associated with the New Left; the writing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403941068
• ISBN13: 9781403941060
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"