The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel
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Author | : Kelly M. Rich |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2023-08-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780192893437 |
ISBN-13 | : 0192893432 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel by : Kelly M. Rich
Book excerpt: The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British Novel offers a new literary history of the Second World War and its aftermath by focusing on wartime visions of rebuilding Britain. Studying works by Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Samuel Selvon, Alan Hollinghurst, Michael Ondaatje, and Kazuo Ishiguro, it shows how contemporary fiction reflected the transition from a warfare state to a welfare state, and preserved its transformative potential while redefiningits possible futures. With this long view of postwar fiction, this volume demonstrates the holding power of welfare's promises of repair and Britain's mid-century on the British cultural imagination.