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This is an original and very timely contribution to the emergent field of mid-century studies. It offers extended new readings of such indisputably major figures as Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell at the same time as it undertakes some important recoveries of the period's once-familiar names. This wide-ranging collection will be of interest to any reader hoping to understand better the rich and complex literature of twentieth-century Britain's most powerfully consequential decade. --Marina MacKay, Professor, St Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK The 1940s brings together top scholars who illuminate the period's compelling myths and lost cultures, guiding us from literary lodestars like Elizabeth Bowen, George Orwell, and Graham Greene to such fascinating and neglected subjects as Royal Navy novels, women's fictions of genteel bohemia, and the exile literature of German and Austrian refugees from National Socialism. --Kristin Bluemel, Professor of English, Monmouth University, USA

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Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies. His many publications as both author and editor include Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2013) and (co-edited with Emily Horton and Leigh Wilson) The 1980s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2014). Glyn White is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford, UK. His previous books include Reading the Graphic Surface: The Presence of the Book in Prose Fiction (2005.

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