Kelly M. Rich (Harvard University Associate Professor of English)

The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel

States of Repair

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the literature of the Second World War and its aftermath, focusing on the welfare state and wartime visions of rebuilding Britain.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 145mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780192893437
• ISBN-10: 0192893432
• Artikelnr.: 68048814

Autorenporträt

Kelly M. Rich is Associate Professor of English at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: States of Repair
PART I: CRADLE
1: A Room of One's Own? Postwar Modernism and the Reconstructive Imagination
2: "Nowhere's Safe": Angry Young Women and Communal Betrayal
3: Unhomely Empire: Seeking Hospitality in Windrush Britain
Interlude: Failed Utopias, or the Beginning of the End
PART II: GRAVE
4: Empty Places: Unpropertied Intimacy and Queer History
5: Oasis Societies: Global Welfare and the Romance of Care
6: Institutional Life: Infrastructural Interiority as Postwar Feeling
Coda: A Hostile Environment
Bibliography