British Literature in Transition Series - Series page

pp ii-ii

British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vii

Contributors

pp viii-xii

General Editor’s Preface

pp xiii-xv

Acknowledgements

pp xvi-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-30

Part I - Aftermath: The Beginning or the End?

pp 31-136

Introduction

pp 33-36

Chapter 1 - Slender Means: The Novel in the Age of Austerity

pp 37-51

Chapter 2 - Impossible Elegies: Poetry in Transition 1940–1960

pp 52-67

Chapter 3 - Democracy, Decentralisation and Diversity: The Renaissance of British Theatre

pp 68-84

Chapter 4 - National Transitions: Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

pp 85-100

Chapter 5 - Heroes of Austerity: Genre in Transition

pp 101-116

Chapter 6 - Wireless Writing, the Second World War and the West Indian Literary Imagination

pp 117-136

Part II - The Politics of Transition

pp 137-242

Introduction

pp 139-142

Chapter 7 - Narrating Transitions to Peace: Fiction and Film after War

pp 143-160

Chapter 8 - Poetry, the Early Cold War and the Idea of Europe

pp 161-175

Chapter 9 - Horizon, Encounter and Mid-Century Geopolitics

pp 176-191

Chapter 10 - Public Intellectuals and the Politics of Literature: The Causes and Collaborations of J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes Priestley

pp 192-208

Chapter 11 - Prizing the Nation: Postwar Children’s Fiction

pp 209-224

Chapter 12 - Artists of Their Time: The Postwar Battle for Realism in Literature and Painting

pp 225-242

Part III - Reconfigurations

pp 243-330

Introduction

pp 245-248

Chapter 13 - Demob: The Postwar Origins of the New Nature Writing

pp 249-266

Chapter 14 - Old Haunts: Childhood and Home in Postwar Fiction

pp 267-281

Chapter 15 - New Uses of Literacy: The Blank Page and Writing in the Aftermath of War

pp 282-296