The fiction of the 1940s : stories of survival
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The fiction of the 1940s : stories of survival
Palgrave, 2001
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of essays explores the strange and intense relationship between history and artistic form during the 1940s. The essays cover a comprehensive range of issues, including the Blitz, spying, demobilisation, traumatic loss, nostalgia for the pre-war years, addiction, and the formation of sexual identity. The writings of both well-known and neglected authors are discussed in detail.
Table of Contents
- Notes on the Contributors Introduction Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadowy Fifth
- M.Ellmann The Wibberlee Wobberlee Walk: Lowry, Hamilton, Kavan and Addictions of 1940s Fiction
- G.Ward Bombs and Roses: The Writing of Anxiety in Henry Green's Caught
- L.Stonebridge The Timeless Elsewhere of World War Two: Rosamund Lehmann's The Ballad and the Source and Kate O'Brien's The Last of Summer
- P.Lassner The Novel Sequences of Joyce Cary
- H.Erskine-Hill Wild Soldiers: Jocelyn Brooke and England's Militarised Landscape
- M.Rawlinson Broken Glass
- R.Mengham Lying, Cruelty, Secrecy and Alienation in I: Compton-Burnett's Elders and Betters
- B.Hardy Away from the Lighthouse: William Sansom and Elizabeth Taylor in 1949
- N.H.Reeve Souvenirs from France: Textual Traumatism in Henry Green's Back
- G.Barrett 'Quantitative Judgements Don't Apply': The Fiction of Evelyn Waugh and Grahame Greene
- P.Mudford Index
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