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This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction. Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children’s and young adult literature, thrillers and horror, it shows how pressing nuclear issues were, particularly the possibility of nuclear war, were and how deeply they penetrated the culture. It is innovative for its discussion of a “nuclear transatlantic,” placing British and American texts in dialogue with one another, for its identification of a vibrant young adult fiction that resonates with more conventionally studied literatures of the period and for its analysis of a “politics of vulnerability” animating nuclear debates. Placing nuclear literature in social and historical contexts, it shows how novels and short stories responded not only to nuclear fears, but also crystallised contemporary debates about issues of gender, the environment, society and the economy.

American literature --- Cold War in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Civilization-History. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Cultural History. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Civilization—History. --- 1900-1999

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"When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it not only signalled the final phase of the Second World War, it also precipitated a nuclear age that shaped the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. States of Suspense is about the representation of this nuclear age in United States literature from 1945-2005. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of American literature, and postmodern and technological culture. It will also be of interest to those more generally intrigued by the cultural fallout of the nuclear age."--Jacket.

American literature --- American literature. --- Atomic bomb in literature. --- Atomkrieg (Motiv). --- Atomkriegsgefahr (Motiv). --- Literatur. --- Nuclear warfare in literature. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- History and criticism --- 1900-2099. --- Geschichte 1945-2005. --- USA. --- United States.