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Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace'
- Volume 5
Engelsk Hardback
Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace'
- Volume 5
Engelsk Hardback

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A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation

This study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers'' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters - Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and Atomising - the book sets middlebrow and popular writers alongside residual modernists and new voices to reconstruct the literary landscape of the period. Detailed case studies of fiction, drama and poetry provide fresh critical perspectives on writers as diverse as Margery Allingham, Alexander Baron, Elizabeth Bowen, Keith Douglas, Henry Green, Graham Greene, Georgette Heyer, Alun Lewis, Nancy Mitford, George Orwell, Mervyn Peake, J. B. Priestley, Terence Rattigan, Mary Renault, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas and Evelyn Waugh.

Key Features
Detailed and theoretically informed case studies of canonical writers such as Bowen, Orwell, Greene and Waugh
Case studies and critical re-evaluations of popular genre writers and forgotten writers





Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
312
ISBN-13:
9780748627448
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0748627448
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2013
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
169mm
Højde:
237mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2013
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