British Literature 1950-2010

Timeline created by tarvir in Art and Culture

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
03/01/1950	C. S. Lewis - First volume of Chronicles of Narnia
03/01/1953	Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
03/12/1953	Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
03/12/1953	William Golding - Lord of the Flies
03/01/1954	J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the RIngs - Fellowship of the Ring
03/12/1962	Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
03/12/1962	Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
03/01/1964	Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
03/01/1968	John Fowles - The French Liutenant's Woman
03/01/1969	Muriel Spark - The Public Image
03/01/1973	J.G. Ballard - Crash
03/12/1980	William Golding - Rites of Passage
03/01/1989	K. Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
06/30/1997	J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1950 to 03/01/2010	Assigned time
03/01/1958 to 03/01/1962	Birth of kitchen sink realism	Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a term coined to describe a British cultural movement which developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art (the term itself derives from an expressionist painting by John Bratby), novels, film and television plays, whose 'heroes' usually could be described as angry young men. It used a style of social realism which often depicted the domestic situations of working class Britons to explore social issues and political controversies.