British literature of the Blitz
Subtitle: fighting the people's war
By: Kristine Miller.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780230573659
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war; War and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; War in literature; Ideology in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: fighting the people's war; title: Mobile women in Elizabeth Bowen's war writing; title: Immobile women in Rosamond Lehmann's war writing; title: Real men in Henry Green's war writing; title: No escape in the detective and spy fiction of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Graham Greene; title: The film-minded public.