Useless Activity by Christopher Webb PAPERBACK 9781836244011

Useless Activity\nby Christopher Webb\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christopher Webb\nTitle: Useless Activity\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2025\nISBN-13: 9781836244011\nISBN-10: 1836244010\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nUsing a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975 is the first study to ask why the experimental writing of the 1960s and 1970s appears so fraught with anxiety about its own uselessness, before suggesting that this very anxiety was symptomatic of a unique period in British literary history w.