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Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace'
This is a groundbreaking re reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. This study focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' …
British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar
'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 …
Scotland and the First World War
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity …
A History of Feminist Literary Criticism
Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative …
British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar
'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 …
John Mills and British Cinema
Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second …
War-Torn Tales
Prosthetic Agency
Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II examines the social and psychic upheaval of demobilisation. It maps the rapid transition from wartime …
Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace'
A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformationThis new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and …
History of Feminist Literary Criticism
Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative …
Women's Fiction of the Second World War
This book examines the relationship between war and gender through the analysis of literary texts. Focusing on the fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers, Stevie Smith, Virginia Woolf, Naomi …