Stephen Ross is Professor of English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought at the University of Victoria, Canada.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chapter One - Angry(-ish) Young(-ish) Men: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Absolute Beginners
Chapter Two - Can the Skinhead Speak? A Clockwork Orange
Chapter Three - Youth Culture Goes Metastatic: The Rachel Papers and The Buddha of Suburbia
Chapter Four - Sojourn in Babylon: The Commitments, Brixton Rock, and East of Acre Lane
Chapter Five - Rave and Heroin: Trainspotting
Works Cited
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