the fifties
"The Angry Young Men"
receive higher education at universities
Unemployment had increased after the war and besides that, English society continued to follow the old conservative rules of life and apparently did not need them
John Wain, Kingsley Amis, and the dramatist John Osborne
lower middle- class backgrounds
an outspoken irreverence for the British class system and the pretensions of the aristocracy
disapprove of the elitist universities, the Church of England, and the darkness of the working class life.
plays "Look Back in Anger"(1956), 'The Entertainer"(1957), “A Patriot For Me" (1966), “The Hotel In Amsterdam” (1968), "Watch Come Down" (1976)
personalities
graham greene
Hertfordshire
was educated at Oxford
newspaper correspondent, an editor, a critic, a novelist, a dramatist, a short story writer
conversion to Roman Catholicism (1926)
thrillers ("The Man Within", "Stamboul Train",
entertaining novels ("The Confidential Agent", "Loser Takes All",
Catholic novels ("The Power and the Glory", "The Quiet American" , "The Comedians"
real life burning problems, poverty and misery, sympathy for mankind, the motives behind the crime
iris murdoch
novels, drama, philosophical criticism, critical theory, poetry, a short story, a pamphlet, and a libretto or an opera
a Platonist whose aesthetics and view of man and inextricable and moral philosophy, aesthetics, and characterization are clearly interrelated in her novels
Under the Net, The Flight from the Enchanter, The Sandcastle, The Unicorn, The Red and the Green, The Time of Angels, An Accidental Man, The Black Prince
in Dublin in 1919
teaching philosophy at Oxford
lack clear definition
agatha christie
nearly 90 novels and collections of stories in a lifetime that spanned 85 years
The Mousetrap
the most widely-translated British author in the world
william golding
Cornwall, England
the life of luxury
It was war where Golding lost the idea that men are inherently good
Lord of the Flies.
the Nobel prize for his literary merits
his pessimism and scepticism made him close to modernists