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| A term used to describe the authors of some novels and plays of the late 1950s and early 1960s in Britain, who felt a confident contempt for and expressed an energetic rejection of the (apparently) established order. They include Kingsley Amis, John Braine, John Osborne, Alan Sillitoe, and John Wain. The term was also applied to certain characters in their works, notably Jimmy Porter in Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956). Porter, the anti-hero of the play, is the epitome of a young man from a working-class background who had been to university and subsequently found himself alienated from his own social background, while scorning the political and social pretensions of bourgeois society. |
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