{"product_id":"twentieth-century-literature-and-the-aftermath-of-war-hardback-9781009493383","title":"Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War (Hardback) 9781009493383","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTwentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen lives are derailed by war, fictions can console the bereaved. How did writers treat counterfactuals in their post-war writings?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRachel Bryan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009493383, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.1 cm, 0.514 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\"\u003eStudents of twentieth-century literature are familiar with narratives that associate devastating wars with conceptual, societal, and aesthetic upheavals. What these accounts overlook, however, is a body of psychologically attuned modern writing that was less interested in this shattering of faith and form than in those counterfactual modes of resistance deployed by individuals and nations in response to mass violence and profound change. Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War is an innovative study of the attention paid to such reparative, stabilising impulses in post-war writings from across the last century. Focusing on works by Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, and Kazuo Ishiguro as case studies, it argues that to fully understand the relationship between modern warfare and literary art, we must learn to engage with texts whose modernity lies in their acknowledgement of the draw felt towards, and contested ethics of, consolatory counterfactuals.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: the cracks in the vase and the lies in the Soul\u003cbr\u003e 1. Untimely deaths and artful promise in Henry James's post–1890 writings\u003cbr\u003e 2. Reading Henry James in first World wartime\u003cbr\u003e 3. Imaginary widowhood in Elizabeth Bowen's 'A year I remember – 1918' and A World of Love\u003cbr\u003e 4. Retroactive judgements in Elizabeth Bowen's the heat of the Day\u003cbr\u003e 5. Traitors, Treason, and 'Topsy-Turvy' values in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The summer after the war' and An Artist of the floating World\u003cbr\u003e 6. Art and consolation in Kazuo Ishiguro's never let me go.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 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]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52414091821336,"sku":"9781009493383","price":72.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009493383i.jpg?v=1784337788","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/twentieth-century-literature-and-the-aftermath-of-war-hardback-9781009493383","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}