Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975

by Christopher Webb

Using a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975 is the first study to ask why the experimental writing of the 1960s and 1970s appears so fraught with anxiety about its own uselessness, before suggesting that this very anxiety was symptomatic of a unique period in British literary history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800854633
• ISBN13: 9781800854635
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"