{"product_id":"british-literature-in-transition-1940-1960-postwar-hardback-9781107119017","title":"British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar (Hardback) 9781107119017","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBritish Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGill Plain (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107119017, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 December 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e438 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.8 cm, 0.76 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Gill Plain\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Aftermath: The Beginning or the End?: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Slender means: the novel in the age of austerity Marina MacKay\u003cbr\u003e 2. Impossible elegies: poetry in transition 1940–1960 Nigel Alderman\u003cbr\u003e 3. Democracy and decentralisation: the Renaissance of British theatre? Rebecca D'Monté\u003cbr\u003e 4. National transitions: Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland Katie Gramich\u003cbr\u003e 5. Heroes of austerity: genre in transition Gill Plain\u003cbr\u003e 6. Wireless writing, World War II and the West Indian literary imagination James Procter\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Politics of Transition: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 7. Narrating transitions to peace: fiction and film after war Mark Rawlinson\u003cbr\u003e 8. Poetry, the early Cold War and the idea of Europe Adam Piette\u003cbr\u003e 9. Horizon, encounter and mid-century geopolitics Thomas S. Davis\u003cbr\u003e 10. Public intellectuals and the politics of literature: the causes and collaborations of J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes Priestley Ina Habermann\u003cbr\u003e 11. Prizing the nation: postwar children's fiction Lucy Pearson\u003cbr\u003e 12. Artists of their time: the postwar battle for realism in literature and painting Alice Ferrebe\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Reconfigurations: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 13. Demob: the postwar origins of the new nature writing Leo Mellor\u003cbr\u003e 14. Old haunts: childhood and home in postwar fiction Victoria Stewart\u003cbr\u003e 15. New uses of literacy: the blank page and writing in the aftermath of war Tracy Hargreaves\u003cbr\u003e 16. The pursuit of love: writing postwar desire Charlotte Charteris\u003cbr\u003e 17. Creating vital theatre: new voices in a time of transition Claire Cochrane\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. No Directions: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 18. Covert legacies in postwar British fiction James Smith\u003cbr\u003e 19. 'The sights are worse than the journeys': travel writing at the mid-century Petra Rau\u003cbr\u003e 20. The future and the end: imagining catastrophe in mid-century British fiction Allan Hepburn\u003cbr\u003e 21. Exhausted literature: the postwar novel in repose Kate McLoughlin.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary reference works [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary reference works\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20reference%20works%20%5BDSR%5D%22\"\u003eDSR\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005037170968,"sku":"9781107119017","price":83.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107119017i_29b4d4a2-550c-4acc-93b9-06e8d2146697.jpg?v=1696793452","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/british-literature-in-transition-1940-1960-postwar-hardback-9781107119017","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}