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British Literature of the Blitz

Fighting the People’s War

  • Authors
  • Kristine A. Miller
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Fighting the People’s War
    Kristine A. Miller
    Pages 1-25
  3. Mobile Women in Elizabeth Bowen’s War Writing
    Kristine A. Miller
    Pages 26-58
  4. Immobile Women in Rosamond Lehmann’s War Writing
    Kristine A. Miller
    Pages 59-82
  5. Real Men in Henry Green’s War Writing
    Kristine A. Miller
    Pages 83-115
  6. No Escape in the Detective and Spy Fiction of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Graham Greene
    Kristine A. Miller
    Pages 116-151
  7. The Film-Minded Public
    Kristine A. Miller
    Pages 152-188
  8. Back Matter
    Pages 189-216
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About this book

Introduction

British Literature of the Blitz interrogates the patriotic, utopian ideal of the People's War by analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in literature and film. Its subtitle – Fighting the People's War – describes how British citizens both united to fight Nazi Germany and questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together.

Keywords

English literature fiction film ideology Utopia

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