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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.
  
• Published/Created:Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
  ©2020
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR881 .D47 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• 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.
  
• Description:x, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780814214527 (cloth)
  0814214525 (cloth)
  9780814280768 (ebook)
  0814280765 (ebook)
  
• 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.