Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II

by Claire Seiler

Book Overview

How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension--a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors and opaque horizons--shaped transatlantic literary forms and cultural expression in this singular moment.

Rooted in extensive archival research in literary, print, and public cultures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231194692
• ISBN13: 9780231194693
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"