The English Novel at Mid-Century: From the Leaning Tower

by Michael Edward Gorra

Book Overview

'So far as the young were concerned, ' Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, 'the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcastles.' Most critical accounts of that postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the myth of the 'thirties.' Michael Gorra's innovation in this exciting study of the postwar generation's major novelists lies in seeing the consequences of that dissolution in formal rather than political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333522427
• ISBN13: 9780333522424
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"