Modernism and World War II

The Second World War marked the beginning of the end of literary modernism in Britain. However, this late period of modernism and its response to the War have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve. In the first full-length study of modernism and World War II, Marina MacKay offers his...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacKay, Marina, 1975- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2007
Edition:1st publ
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Online Access:Sumario
See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991002363049708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: modernism beyond the blitz
  • Virginia Woolf and the pastoral patria
  • Rebecca West's anti-Bloomsbury group
  • The situational politics of Four quartets
  • The neutrality of Henry Green
  • Evelyn Waugh and the ends of minority culture
  • Coda. National historiography after the post-war settlement