Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace': Volume 5

by Gill Plain

Book Overview

A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation

This new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters - Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and Atomising - the book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748627456
• ISBN13: 9780748627455
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"