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This collection of essays explores the strange and intense relationship between history and artistic form during the 1940s. The essays cover a comprehensive range of issues, including the Blitz, spying, demobilisation, traumatic loss, nostalgia for the pre-war years, addiction, and the formation of sexual identity. The writings of both well-known and neglected authors are discussed in detail.
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GERARD BARRETT St Edmund's College, Cambridge
MAUD ELLMANN University Lecturer in English and Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
HOWARD ERSKINE-HILL Professor of Literary History, Faculty of English, Cambridge University
BARBARA HARDY Emeritus Professor, University of London and Honorary Professor, University of Wales, Swansea
PHYLLIS LASSNER Lecturer in Gender Studies and Holocaust Studies, Northwestern University
PETER MUDFORD Professor of English and European Languages, Birkbeck College
MARK RAWLINSON Lecturer in English, University of Leicester
LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE Senior Lecturer, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia
GEOFF WARD Professor of English, University of Dundee
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This collection of essays explores the strange and intense relationship between history and artistic form during the 1940s. The essays cover a comprehensive range of issues, including the Blitz, spying, demobilisation, traumatic loss, nostalgia for the pre-war years, addiction, and the formation of sexual identity. The writings of both well-known and neglected authors are discussed in detail.
