This book tells the timely and much-needed story of the state's interest in supporting literary production in post-war Britain. Working with unexamined sources it charts the forgotten record of state sponsorship into conversation with Britain's transformation into a successful multicultural democracy.
State Sponsored Literature will be of the greatest value to all readers concerned to open up these questions both historically and in the present moment.
Asha Rogers is a lecturer in the School of English, Drama & Creative Studies at the University of Birmingham, where she specialises in the interfaces between writers, print culture and institutions and postcolonial literatures in English.