| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Fighting the people's war -- Mobile women in Elizabeth Bowen's war writing -- Immobile women in Rosamond Lehmann's war writing -- Real men in Henry Green's war writing -- No escape in the detective and spy fiction of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Graham Greene -- The film-minded public |
| Summary |
Analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in British literature and film of the Blitz, this book interrogates the ideal of the People₂s War, which claimed to unite men and women of all classes in defence of the home front. The subtitle ₆ Fighting the People₂s War ₆ describes the way that British citizens not only cooperated to fight Nazi Germany but also questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together. The paradox of the People's War is that it counters a totalitarian threat with a potentially totalizing ideal: because it is both patriotic and utopian, the rhetoric resists critique, even though the right to question compulsory nationalism was precisely what Britain was fighting for. Above all else, British literature of the Blitz values the voicing of individual opinion, even ₆ or especially ₆ when individuals do not agree: a utopia that denies the freedom to critique utopianism is no utopia at all |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
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War and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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War in literature.
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Ideology in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Ideology in literature
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War and literature
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War in literature
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Bombardementen.
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Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Romans.
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Engels.
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230234321 |
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0230234321 |
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