Introduction:Last Things First 1
Part Ⅰ Histories 13
1．'Gleaming Twilight':Literature,Culture,and Society 13
2．A Postmodern Age?Literature,Ideas,and Traditions 57
Ⅰ．The End of the Modern 57
Ⅱ．Modernist and Other Legacies 72
3．An Age of Theory?Critics,Readers,and Authors 88
4．A Golden Age?Readers,Authors,and the Book Trade 125
Ⅰ．The More Common Reader 125
Ⅱ．Commerce and Conscience,Ledgers and Literature 143
Part Ⅱ Poetry 165
5．Movement or Revival:The Late 1950s to the 1980s 165
6．Counter-movements and Modernist Memories:1960 to the 1980s 190
7．Politics and Postmodernism:The Late 1970s to 2000 210
8．Rosebay Revived:Language,Form,and Audience for'This Unpopular Art' 238
Part Ⅲ Drama 273
9．A Public Art Form:The Late 1950s to the 1970s 273
10．Last Year in Jerusalem:Politics and Performance after 1968 301
11．'Real Revolutionaries':Politics and the Margins 332
12．Absurdism,Postmodernism,Individualism 346
13．Discovering the Body 367
14．Revolution,Television,Subsidy 381
Part Ⅳ Narrative 397
15．To the Crossroads:Style and Society in the 1960s and 1970s 397
16．A Darker Route:Morality and History in the 1960s and 1970s 414
17．Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible:The 1970s to 2000 434
18．'Double Lives':Women's Writing and Gender Difference 461
19．'The Century of Strangers':Travellers and Migrants 479
20．Genres,Carnivals,Conclusions 502
Author Bibliographies 523
Suggestions for Further Reading 581
Works Cited 587
Index 607
1．Cover of Private Eye,December 1962(Reproduced with permission of Private Eye) 16
2．Queues waiting to buy Lady Chatterley's Lover(Topham Picturepoint) 25
3．Bookshops in the 1960s,and in the 1990s(Topham Picturepoint;and courtesy of Waterstones) 131
4．Penguin covers 140
5．1960s Poetry Readings(Reproduced with permission from Edward Lucie-Smith(ed.),The Liverpool Scene,1967) 182
6．The Albert Hall poetry event,June 1965(Topham Picturepoint) 184
7．Book-signing in the 1980s(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 185
8．'Poems on the Underground'posters(Reproduced with permission of Poems on the Underground,Faber and Faber,and Bloodaxe Books.'Ragwort'appears in Anne Stevenson,The Collected Poems 1955-1995.Bloodaxe,2000) 264
9．The National Theatre(Reproduced by courtesy of the Royal National Theatre) 284
1O．Edward Bond,Lear(Joe Cocks Studio Collection(Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)？Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) 307
11．Caryl Churchill,Cloud Nine(TopFoto/UPPA) 337
12．Harold Pinter,The Caretaker(Topham/John Haynes) 352
13．Peter Brook's RSC Midsummer Night's Dream(Joe Cocks Studio Collection(Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)？Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) 370
14．Sarah Kane,Blasted(Ben Christopher/PAL) 379
15．Tom Phillips,A Humument(Courtesy of Tom Phillips) 450