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Reconstruction fiction : housing and realist literature in postwar Britain / Paula Derdiger.
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Title:Reconstruction fiction : housing and realist literature in postwar Britain / Paula Derdiger.
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Author/Creator:Derdiger, Paula, author.
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Published/Created:Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
©2020
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: PR881 .D47 2020
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Buildings--Repair and reconstruction--Great Britain.
Dwellings--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Postwar reconstruction--Great Britain--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
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Description:x, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Summary:"Assesses the impact of World War II and the welfare state on literary fiction by focusing on how housing reconstruction created a sheltered space for the mediation between individual subjects and the social and geographical environments that they encountered. Argues writers spanning various social positions and aesthetic tendencies-Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, and Elizabeth Taylor-engaged with literary realism as a way to shape postwar life"-- Provided by publisher.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
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ISBN:9780814214527 (cloth)
0814214525 (cloth)
9780814280768 (ebook)
0814280765 (ebook)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Urgent Invitation: Theorizing Postwar Realist Writing
ch. 2 Billets and Boardinghouses: Shared Space and the Reconstruction Novel
ch. 3 Mobile Housing: Realizing Movement in 1950s City Fiction
ch. 4 Country Houses: Nostalgia and the Realist Challenge
ch. 5 Safe Houses: Seeking Shelter and Connection Post-Consensus.