Nothing Sacred '1970-1990'

Overview

The third and final part explores the 70s and 80s - a period in which, as Angela Carter put it, there was 'nothing sacred' as the mores of the time were incessantly called into question. Novelists were at the forefront of a new revolution as British fiction was suddenly thrust into the limelight. Acting as agents of provocation, these disparate writers indelibly changed the literary climate.