Reconstruction Fiction
Subtitle: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Oct 28, 2020
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780814214527
Description: "Assesses the impact of World War II and the welfare state on literary fiction by focusing on how housing reconstruction created a sheltered space for the mediation between individual subjects and the social and geographical environments that they encountered. Argues writers spanning various social positions and aesthetic tendencies-Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, and Elizabeth Taylor-engaged with literary realism as a way to shape postwar life"--
Notes: Source title: Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain