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  title info:
    title: British writers and the approach of World War II
  name:
    name part: Ellis, Steve
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book considers the literary construction of what E. M. Forster calls 'the 1939 State,' namely the anticipation of the Second World War between the Munich crisis of 1938 and the end of the Phony War in the spring of 1940. Steve Ellis investigates not only myriad responses to the imminent war but also various peace aims and plans for post-war reconstruction outlined by such writers as T. S. Eliot, H. G. Wells, J. B. Priestley, George Orwell, E. M. Forster and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. He argues that the work of these writers is illuminated by the anxious tenor of this period. The result is a novel study of the 'long 1939,' which transforms readers' understanding of the literary history of the eve-of-war era.
  table of contents: Introduction: The 1939 State -- 1. Post-Munich I: T. S. Eliot and the Spiritual Revival -- 2. Post-Munich II: Literature of the Crisis -- 3. H.G. Wells and the New World Order -- 4. Orwell, Forster and the Role of the Writer -- 5. Virginia Woolf and the Theatre of War --Conclusion: Ends and Beginnings?
  note: Steven Ellis, University of Birmingham.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: War and literature
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Nineteen thirty-nine, A.D
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  classification: PR471 .E45 2015
  classification: 820.9/00912
  identifier: 9781107054585 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107054583 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014009767
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140508
    record change date: 20151206124438.0
    record identifier: in00003496161