British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960
Postwar
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Word Count
109,500 words, Guess
Page Count
438 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781107119017
- ISBN-101107119014
- Library of Congress Control Number2018042046
- OCLC Control Number1086444075
- Better World Books9781107119017
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28699882M
Classifications
- LCCPR471
- LCCPR478.S57 B775 2019
Description
"'Postwar' is both a period and a state of mind, a sensibility comprised of hope, fear and fatigue in which British society and its writers paradoxically yearned both for political transformation and a nostalgic reinstatement of past securities. From the Labour landslide victory of 1945 to the emergence of the Cold War and the humiliation of Suez in 1956, this was a period of radical political transformation in Britain and beyond, but these changes resisted literary assimilation. Arguing that writing and history do not map straightforwardly one onto the other, and that the postwar cannot easily be fitted into the explanatory paradigms of modernism or postmodernism, this book offers a more nuanced recognition of what was written and read in the period. From wartime radio writing to 1950s travellers, cold war poetry to radical theatre, magazine cultures to popular fiction, this volume examines important debates that animated postwar Britain"--
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- British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar
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