British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar Hardback
Edited by Gill (University of St Andrews, Scotland) Plain
Part of the British Literature in Transition series
Hardback
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'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 re-instatement 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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:438 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:20/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781107119017
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:438 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:20/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107119017
