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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel CordlePublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2017 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 4.199kg ISBN: 9781137513076ISBN 10: 1137513071 Pages: 229 Publication Date: 10 March 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.- Introduction: Protect-Protest: The Nuclear 1980s.- 1. The Most Explosive Love Story Ever: Transatlantic Nuclear Discourse.- 2. The Politics of Vulnerability: Protest and Nuclear Literature.- 3. Post-Containment Culture: Gender, Family and Society in the Late Cold War.- 4. Dust, Winter and Refuge: Environmentalism and Nuclear Literature.- 5. From the Ashes: Society and Economy in Nuclear Literature.- 6. Burning Books: Textual Preoccupations of Nuclear and Postmodern Culture.- Conclusion: Between the Wars.- Bibliography.- Appendix: Timeline.- Index.-ReviewsDaniel Cordle's Late Cold War Literature and Culture: The Nuclear 1980s works to examine the underlying social, political, economic and cultural anxieties during the Cold War era. ... The Nuclear 1980s is a helpful introduction to nuclear literature and culture. ... Cordle's book shows how complex anxieties pervade through different aspects of life in the late Cold War era, and successfully captures the intriguing nuances of the nuclear age. (Carl White, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, August, 2017) Author InformationDaniel Cordle is Reader in English and American Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He has worked extensively on literature and science, and on the literary and cultural representations of nuclear technology. He is the author of numerous articles on these topics and of two monographs: Postmodern Postures: Literature, Science and the Two Cultures Debate (1999) and States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose (2008). At Nottingham Trent he teaches a specialist module in nuclear literature, as well as working across the curriculum in British and American literature, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |