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OverviewHow did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded drastic and decisive changes to old certainties. Moving from potential invasion and defeat to victory, the creation of the welfare state and a new Cold war threat, the pace of historical change seemed too rapid and monumental for writers to match. Consequently the 1940s were often side-lined in literary accounts as a dividing line between periods and styles. Drawing on more recent scholarship and research, this volume surveys and analyses this period’s fascinating diversity, from novels of the Blitz and the Navy to the rise of important new voices with its contributors exploring the work of influential women, Commonwealth, exiled, genre, avant-garde and queer writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the intriguing decade, this book offers substantial chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell as well as covering such writers as Jocelyn Brooke, Monica Dickens, James Hadley Chase, Patrick Hamilton, Gerald Kersh, Daphne Du Maurier, Mary Renault, Denton Welch and many others. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Philip Tew (Brunel University, United Kingdom) , Dr Glyn White (University of Salford, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.685kg ISBN: 9781350143012ISBN 10: 1350143014 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 24 February 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education 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 ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface Contributors Acknowledgements Critical introduction: Reappraising the 1940s Philip Tew and Glyn White 1 Their finest hour?: A literary history of the 1940s Ashley Maher 2 British Blitz fiction of the 1940s: Another finest hour, myth or propaganda? Philip Tew 3 Genteel Bohemia: Capable women in women’s fiction of the 1940s Deborah Philips 4 The ship and the nation: Royal Navy novels and the people’s war 1939–45 Chris Hopkins 5 Feeling political: Elizabeth Bowen in the 1940s Karen Schaller 6 The life of animals: George Orwell’s fiction in the 1940s Tamás Bényei 7 Masters and servants, class, and the colonies in Graham Greene’s 1940s fiction Rebecca Dyer 8 Purposes of love: Rethinking intimacy in the 1940s Charlotte Charteris 9 No concession to ‘English’ taste? Refugees from National Socialism writing in Britain Andrea Hammel 10 Un-British: The transatlantic crime film connection Glyn White Timeline of Works Timeline of UK events Timeline of international events Biographies of writers IndexReviewsThis 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 * Author InformationPhilip 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |