Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace': Volume 5
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plain, Gill (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014
Series:Edinburgh history of twentieth-century literature in Britain
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Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
Item Description:Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index
Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Preface; Chapter One Introduction; I War; Chapter Two Documenting; Chapter Three Desiring; Chapter Four Killing; II Postwar; Chapter Five Escaping; Chapter Six Grieving; Chapter Seven Adjusting; III 'Peace'; Chapter 8 Atomising; Works Cited; Index
This new study rereads the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. Instead of separating the 1940s into before and after the war, it focuses on the entire decade and the themes which emerged from writers' involvement in and resistance to, the conflict. It examines popular and middlebrow writers, as well as literary authors
ISBN:9780748631513
0748631518
0748627448
9780748627448
9781306117746
1306117747

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