Gill Plain (Scotland University of St Andrews)

Prosthetic Agency

Literature, Culture and Masculinity After World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the legacy of World War II on male identity and reinvention. It considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir and biography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781316513200
• ISBN-10: 1316513203
• Artikelnr.: 67292599

Autorenporträt

Gill Plain is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews and has published extensively on war writing, mid-century British literature and film, popular culture and gender. Her books include Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (2001), John Mills and British Cinema (2006), Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace' (2013) and, as editor, British Literature in Transition, 1940¿1960 (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Technology: 1. Enabling machines: Hammond Innes, Nevil Shute and technologies of rehabilitation
2. Cinema in the sky: risk, responsibility and domestic citizenship
3. Bad science: Nigel Balchin and the limits of technological man-making
Part II. Disability: 4. Writing rehabilitation: prosthetic autobiography and self-(re)invention
5. Unrepresentable wounds? Nevil Shute, Hammond Innes and the legacies of damage
6. A 'machine genius of the new aerial art': imagining Douglas Bader
Coda: of pigs and men.