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  3. British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar
    • Edited by Gill Plain, University of St Andrews, Scotland
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    14 December 2018
    20 December 2018
    ISBN:
    9781316340530
    9781107119017
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316340530
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.76kg, 438 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature after 1945, English Literature 1900-1945
    Series:
    British Literature in Transition
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    Literature, English Literature after 1945, English Literature 1900-1945
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    '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 resisted literary assimilation. Arguing that writing and history do not map straightforwardly one onto the other, and that the postwar cannot easily be fitted into the explanatory paradigms of modernism or postmodernism, this book offers a more nuanced recognition of what was written and read in the period. From wartime radio writing to 1950s travellers, cold war poetry to radical theatre, magazine cultures to popular fiction, this volume examines important debates that animated postwar Britain.

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