num_pages: 220
description: This collection of essays explores the strange and intense relationship between history and artistic form during the 1940s. The essays cover a comprehensive range of issues, including the Blitz, spying, demobilisation, traumatic loss, nostalgia for the pre-war years, addiction, and the formation of sexual identity. The writings of both well-known and neglected authors are discussed in detail.
language: English
title: The Fiction of the 1940s: Stories of Survival
titlecomplete: The Fiction of the 1940s: Stories of Survival
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan