| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: Fictions of Man-Making in a Prosthetic Culture -- From Warrior Heroes to Domestic Citizens: Ideal Masculinity in Transition -- Prosthetic Masculinity: Male Subjectivity and its Signifying Objects -- Popular Culture and the Postwar: Telling Stories -- Prosthetic Agency in Action: The Case of Sammy Rice -- Part I Technology -- Chapter 1 Enabling Machines: Hammond Innes, Nevil Shute and Technologies of Rehabilitation |
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Engineering the Future: Hammond Innes and Men at Work -- Safeguarding the Future: Nevil Shute and the Heroism of Little Men -- Chapter 2 Cinema in the Sky: Risk, Responsibility and Domestic Citizenship -- Feet on the Ground: Ealing in the Air -- Up in the Clouds: The Sound Barrier and the Technological Sublime -- Chapter 3 Bad Science: Nigel Balchin and the Limits of Technological Man-Making -- 'The Boffin's Lament': John Wyndham, Science and Satire -- Full Circle: Nigel Balchin and the Limits of Prosthetic Agency -- Part II Disability |
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Chapter 4 Writing Rehabilitation: Prosthetic Autobiography and Self-(Re)invention -- Saving Face: William Simpson's Textual Reconstruction -- Chapter 5 Unrepresentable Wounds: Nevil Shute, Hammond Innes and the Legacies of Damage -- Normalising Disability in the Postwar -- A Home Fit for Heroes? Nevil Shute's Strategies of Debt and Displacement -- Fluid Dynamics: Mind and Body in Hammond Innes -- Chapter 6 A 'Machine Genius of the New Aerial Art': Imagining Douglas Bader -- 'A Legend in His Own Lifetime': Filming Douglas Bader -- Chapter 7 Coda: Of Pigs and Men -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources |
| Summary |
"This book addresses the legacy of World War II on male identity and reinvention. It considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir, and biography"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2023) |
| Subject |
Masculinity in popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Men -- Great Britain -- Identity -- History -- 20th century
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Sociology of disability -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Psychic trauma -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Masculinity in popular culture
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Men -- Identity
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Psychic trauma
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Sociology of disability
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War and literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022053413 |
| ISBN |
9781009072106 |
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1009072102 |
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1009081810 |
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9781009081818 |
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