British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar

'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107119014
• ISBN13: 9781107119017
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"