British writers and the approach of World War II /

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 immine...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ellis, Steve, 1952-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. War and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Nineteen thirty-nine, A.D. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

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?