British Literature of the Blitz Fighting the People's War

by Miller, Kristine

• ISBN13: 9780230573659
• ISBN10: 0230573657
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book 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.

Author Biography

KRISTINE A. MILLER is Associate Professor and Associate Department Head of English at Utah State University. She has published on modern British literature in Modern Fiction Studies, Genre, Twentieth Century Literature and the Journal of Modern Literature.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction: Fighting the People's War	p. 1
Mobile Women in Elizabeth Bowen's War Writing	p. 26
Immobile Women in Rosamond Lehmann's War Writing	p. 59
Real Men in Henry Green's War Writing	p. 83
No Escape in the Detective and Spy Fiction of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Graham Greene	p. 116
The Film-Minded Public	p. 152
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 209
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