After the Trauma
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After the Trauma

Representative British Novelists Since 1920

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After the Trauma

Representative British Novelists Since 1920

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In this lucid book a distinguished scholar and critic measures British fiction from World War I through the convulsive effects of the Depression and World War II, and the importance of the writing that has been done since Finnegan's Wake.

Webster presents a moving account of the shattering impact of the Great War upon British writers, particularly Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. The cynicism and despair which afflicted them also bore heavily on the novelists of the thirties and forties—Graham Greene, Joyce Cary, L. P. Hartley, C. P. Snow, who endured the disorder and violence of the Depression and World War II. Though all of these writers spoke with individual voices ranging from pessimism to joyful affirmation, they were all marked ineradicably by the turmoil of the period. The book closes with an overview of the writers who have developed since World War II.

Penetrating, fresh, affirmative in its values, the book is an important assessment of this protean group of writers.

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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Year
2014
ISBN
9780813165134
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter One The Trauma
  8. Chapter Two Rose Macaulay: A Christian a Little Agnostic
  9. Chapter Three Aldous Huxley: Sceptical Mystic
  10. Chapter Four Ivy Compton-Burnett: Factualist
  11. Chapter Five Evelyn Waugh: Catholic Aristocrat
  12. Chapter Six Mid-View: The 1930s
  13. Chapter Seven Graham Greene: Stoical Catholic
  14. Chapter Eight Joyce Cary: Christian Unclassified
  15. Chapter Nine L. P. Hartley: Diffident Christian
  16. Chapter Ten C. P. Snow: The Scientific Humanist
  17. Chapter Eleven War, Cold
  18. Index