##PS Angry Young Men: A Literary Movement of the 1950s

Post-war British literature was very much informed by a new generation of authors, who were also referred to as Angry Young Men, expressing their enormous discontent and frustration with society as a whole in their literary works. These novels, plays, and short stories often address issues such as class affiliation conditioning a person s success, class contrasts, and lack of class consciousness. In this seminar, we will thus be taking a closer class-related analytical look at the following canonical pieces of English literature: John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (1956), Alan Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958), John Wain's novel Hurry on Down (1953), and Arnold Wesker's play Roots (1958). In addition, we will be dealing with Sillitoe's short story "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" (1959). If you would like to take part in this seminar, please read these pieces of literature beforehand.