Lads' literature
Lads' literature.By the mid-1990s, most of the feminist battles of the last three decades seemedto have been won, at least in the rather rarefiedcircles inhabited by writers and publishers. It was time for a backlash. Sections of the media now began toexalt an old-fashioned, unreconstructed model ofthe British male, for whom the female body was once again relentlessly objectified and the ideal of serious commitment to emotional relationships was jettisoned in favour of a sort of boorish hedonism centred around sport, drinking, and recreational sex. Propaganda along these lines was issued, beneath a cheery veneer of postmodern irony, by a new rashof men's magazines including Loaded, Arena, and FHM.
The ‘New Lad’ was born, and soon established his own, quite distinct tastes in literature. Among the key texts are Nick Hornby 's Fever Pitch ( 1992 ) and High Fidelity ( 1995 ), which show how the languages...
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