How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its afterma

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the “swinging decade�

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new d

This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends,