Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace': Volume 5

A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748627448','ISBN:9780748627455','ISBN:9780748631513']); This new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers’ immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters – Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and A