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Postwar trends

The final part looks at how in postwar Britain, authors tended to shy away from the idea of the great epic novel. A new breed of writers such as Kingsley Amis brought a fresh irreverent and ironic slant to fiction. In the 1960s there was even talk of the ‘death of the novel’, yet fiction continues to flourish

English
  • Originally Aired August 2, 2003
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network Channel 4
  • Notes Is the series finale
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