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 impa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webster, Harvey Curtis, 1906-1988
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1970.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
English fiction.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780813165134

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