British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past

British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of chronophobia: a joint fear of the past

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about

Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism abo

Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1

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This is the first comparative transnational approach to the language of absolute war and the literature on World War II.

Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps

This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this repr