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Tables of Contents for The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
1
3
Setting the scene
4
3
1 Drama and the theatre: old anger, new violence
7
36
2 The novel - the 1960s and beyond: old guardians and new guards
43
27
Thatcherism and Blairism
27
14
Taboos and taboo words
41
8
Mapping past into present
49
21
3 The novel - the 1970s and beyond: old empires and new Englishes
70
40
What is standard, who is standard, what is English?
96
14
4 The novel - the 1980s and beyond: old forms and new genres
110
43
City slang
129
4
Voices and devolutions
133
14
Titles of the times
147
6
5 Poetry - old pasts, new presents
153
33
The city and the country
180
6
Coda
186
2
Authors and prizes
188
7
Timeline
195
9
Select bibliography: further reading and resources
204
3
Index
207