Under siege : literary life in London, 1939-1945 /
"By weaving together social history and literary history, Hewison shows by anecdote and example how writers, poets, and painters in Britain endured the war. After their heroic struggles against Fascism in the 1930s ended in defeat, writers found themselves without a role as the whole nation con...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1977.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Summary: | "By weaving together social history and literary history, Hewison shows by anecdote and example how writers, poets, and painters in Britain endured the war. After their heroic struggles against Fascism in the 1930s ended in defeat, writers found themselves without a role as the whole nation confronted the harsh realities of world war. Political, material, and psychological conditions conspired against them--and yet out of this atmosphere bordering on despair a flourishing literary society based in Soho developed; writers and artists met for the first time with a sense of common intellectual and creative identity. And writers found that they were not alone in discovering that under siege conditions, art, music, and painting were more--not less--important"--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library Lit/Mitchell copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell. |
| Physical Description: | x, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195199936 9780195199932 0297773267 9780297773269 |