English Journey, Or, The Road to Milton Keynes

English Journey, Or, The Road to Milton Keynes
Author: Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher: George Braziller
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780807611012

Beryl Bainbridge sets out to find England by retracing J.B. Priestly's famous "English Journey". Using the conventions of great British travel writing, Bainbridge, with the skills of a fine novelist, updates to the present Priestly's classic Depression-era journey to the heart and soul of England.

Railways and Culture in Britain

Railways and Culture in Britain
Author: Ian Carter
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780719059667

The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.

A Social History of Milton Keynes

A Social History of Milton Keynes
Author: Mark Clapson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780714655246

This book discusses the prejudices that have distorted understandings of the city of Milton Keynes and focuses upon the original thinking that went into the planning of Milton Keynes.

English Journey, Or, The Road to Milton Keynes

English Journey, Or, The Road to Milton Keynes
Author: Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1997
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780786704200

The author retains the style of J.B. Priestly while retracing the steps of his 1933 "English Journey" to capture the changes that half a century has brought to their native land

Orwell to the Present

Orwell to the Present
Author: John Brannigan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2002-11-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350308854

This essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history, and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new 'maps' of English culture and society. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 combines original readings of familiar texts with wide-ranging explorations of the principal themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the end of the Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Pat Barker, John Betjeman, Edward Bond, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh.

Handbook of British Travel Writing

Handbook of British Travel Writing
Author: Barbara Schaff
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 627
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110498979

This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.

Milton Keynes in British Culture

Milton Keynes in British Culture
Author: Lauren Pikó
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019-01-23
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0429816170

The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose "no fixed conception of how people ought to live." Despite this progressive social vision, and its low density, flexible, green urban design, the town has been consistently represented in British media, political rhetoric and popular culture negatively. as a fundamentally sterile, paternalistic, concrete imposition on the landscape, as a "joke", and even as "Los Angeles in Buckinghamshire". How did these meanings develop at such odds from residents' and planners' experiences? Why have these meanings proved so resilient? Milton Keynes in British Culture traces the representations of Milton Keynes in British national media, political rhetoric and popular culture in detail from 1967 to 1992, demonstrating how the town's founding principles came to be understood as symbolic of the worst excesses of a postwar state planning system which was falling from favour. Combining approaches from urban planning history, cultural history and cultural studies, political economy and heritage studies, the book maps the ways in which Milton Keynes' newness formed an existential challenge to ideals of English landscapes as receptacles of tradition and closed, fixed national identities. Far from being a marginal, "foreign" and atypical town, the book demonstrates how the changing political fortunes of state urban planned spaces were a key site of conflict around ideas of how the British state should function, how its landscapes should look, and who they should be for.

Beryl Bainbridge

Beryl Bainbridge
Author: Huw Marsh
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0746312199

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies.