The 1940s : a decade of modern British fiction
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書誌事項
The 1940s : a decade of modern British fiction
(The decades series)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, c2022
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- タイトル別名
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The nineteen forties : a decade of modern British fiction
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  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
How 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.
目次
Series 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
Tamas Benyei
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
Index
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