After the Trauma: Representative British Novelists Since 1920 by Webster, Harvey Curtis

After the Trauma: Representative British Novelists Since 1920 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813155623)

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After the Trauma: Representative British Novelists Since 1920 by Webster, Harvey Curtis

After the Trauma: Representative British Novelists Since 1920

$25.00
After the Trauma: Representative British Novelists Since 1920 by Webster, Harvey Curtis

After the Trauma: Representative British Novelists Since 1920

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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In this lucid book a distinguished scholar and critic measures British fiction from World War I through the convulsive effects of the Depression and World War II, and the importance of the writing that has been done since Finnegan's Wake. Webster presents a moving account of the shattering impact of the Great War upon British writers, particularly Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. The cynicism and despair which afflicted them also bore heavily on the novelists

Author: Harvey Curtis Webster
ISBN-10: 0813155622
ISBN-13: 9780813155623
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d
By Harvey Curtis Webster
By Harvey Curtis Webster
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Harvey Curtis Webster is professor of English at the University of Louisville. He has been a Fulbright professor at the University of Durham and the University of Leeds and has published essays and reviews in Saturday Review, Kenyon Review, Nation, Poetry, New Republic and other leading magazines.

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