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History, Modern --- Histoire --- Chronology --- Chronologie --- Nineteen forties --- History, Modern - 20th century - Chronology --- Nineteen forties - Chronology

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Nineteen forties --- History, Modern --- Années quarante (Vingtième siècle) --- Histoire --- Dictionaries --- Dictionnaires anglais --- Dictionaries.

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World War, 1939-1945. --- Nineteen forties. --- États-Unis --- Histoire --- United States --- History --- Civilization --- 1945-1953 --- États-Unis

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This new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters - Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and Atomizing - the book sets middlebrow and popular writers alongside residual modernists and new voices to reconstruct the literary landscape of the period. Detailed case studies of fiction, drama and poetry provide fresh critical perspectives on writers as diverse as Margery Allingham, Alexander Baron, Elizabeth Bowen, Keith Douglas, Graham Greene, Henry Green, Georgette Heyer, Alun Lewis, Nancy Mitford, George Orwell, Mervyn Peake, J. B. Priestley, Terrence Rattigan, Mary Renault, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas and Evelyn Waugh. Arguing that the postwar is a concept that emerges almost simultaneously with the war itself, and that 'peace' is significant only by its absence in an emergent post-Atomic cold war era, this book reclaims the complexity of a decade all too often lost in the fault-lines between pre-war modernism and the emergence of the postmodern.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Nineteen forties. --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- 1940s --- 40s (Twentieth century decade) --- Forties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century

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"When the disfigured Marwood Clay returns to his coastal village, he is shunned and feared by the residents for an unspeakable past crime. While Marwood struggles to rebuild some semblance of life for himself, in a village where no other man came back from the war, the newly-arrived and enigmatic Dr. Robert Temple is building a strange house for himself, on the hill overlooking the town. When the men meet, suspicions and secrets begin to pile up between them. Clay is consumed by visions of a nightmarish past he cannot remember, Temple by visions of a future he cannot prevent. And that's when a young boy vanishes on Christmas Day..."--Amazon.com.

Disfigured persons --- Nineteen forties --- Villages --- Hamlets (Villages) --- Village government --- Cities and towns --- 1940s --- 40s (Twentieth century decade) --- Forties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- Persons