Novels of political estrangement: subversion of agency in the twentieth century -- Anti-war novels in the twentieth century: the road to late modernity -- The alchemy of catastrophe: seeking spiritual solace in the ashes of the Holocaust -- Aftermath of disaster: the Nazi legacy -- The contradictions of democracy: political estrangement in the U.S. and the U.K. -- Re-imagining the twentieth century, remembering the twenty-first
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