{"product_id":"the-1940s-a-decade-of-modern-british-fiction-9781350143012","title":"The 1940s A Decade of Modern British Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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 Bo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 1940s\u003c\/i\u003e brings together top scholars who illuminate the period’s compelling myths and lost cultures, guiding us from literary lodestars like Elizabeth Bowen, George Orwell, and Graham Greene to such fascinating and neglected subjects as Royal Navy novels, women’s fictions of genteel bohemia, and the exile literature of German and Austrian refugees from National Socialism. * Kristin Bluemel, Professor of English, Monmouth University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface  Contributors  Acknowledgements    Critical introduction: Reappraising the 1940s \u003ci\u003ePhilip Tew and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGlyn White \u003c\/i\u003e   1 Their finest hour?: A literary history of the 1940s \u003ci\u003eAshley Maher \u003c\/i\u003e 2 British Blitz fiction of the 1940s: Another finest hour, myth or propaganda? \u003ci\u003ePhilip Tew \u003c\/i\u003e 3 Genteel Bohemia: Capable women in women’s fiction of the 1940s \u003ci\u003eDeborah Philips \u003c\/i\u003e 4 The ship and the nation: Royal Navy novels and the people’s war 1939–45 \u003ci\u003eChris Hopkins \u003c\/i\u003e 5 Feeling political: Elizabeth Bowen in the 1940s \u003ci\u003eKaren Schaller \u003c\/i\u003e 6 The life of animals: George Orwell’s fiction in the 1940s \u003ci\u003eTamás Bényei\u003c\/i\u003e 7 Masters and servants, class, and the colonies in Graham Greene’s 1940s fiction \u003ci\u003eRebecca Dyer \u003c\/i\u003e 8 Purposes of love: Rethinking intimacy in the 1940s \u003ci\u003eCharlotte Charteris \u003c\/i\u003e 9 No concession to ‘English’ taste? Refugees from National Socialism writing in Britain \u003ci\u003eAndrea Hammel \u003c\/i\u003e 10 Un-British: The transatlantic crime film connection \u003ci\u003eGlyn White\u003c\/i\u003e   Timeline of Works  Timeline of UK events  Timeline of international events  Biographies of writers  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019630379351,"sku":"9781350143012","price":133.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350143012.jpg?v=1750780836","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-1940s-a-decade-of-modern-british-fiction-9781350143012","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}