Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace'
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- ISBN 9780748627455
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation
This new 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 WaughCase studies and critical re-evaluations of popular genre writers and forgotten writers
Gill Plain is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. She has published extensively on twentieth-century popular culture, crime fiction, gender, sexuality and the writing of the two world wars. Her previous books include John Mills and British Cinema (2006), Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body (2001), and Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (1996).
