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Series Introduction / Nick Hubble (Brunel University London, UK), Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) and Leigh Wilson (University of Westminster, UK) -- Introduction / Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) and Glyn White (University of Salford, UK) -- 1. The Literary History of the 1940s / Ashley Maher (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 2. Blitz Novels: Another Finest Hour, Myth or Trauma? / Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) -- 3. Genteel Bohemia: The Eccentric Women of the 1940s / Deborah Philips (University of Brighton, UK) -- 4. The Ship and the Nation: Royal Navy Novels and the People's War, 1940-1951 / Chris Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) -- 5. Author Study: George Orwell / Tamas Benyei (University of Debrecen, Hungary) -- 6. Queer Traumas, Queer Rehabilitations: Rethinking Intimacy in the 1940s / Charlotte Charteris (University of Cambridge, UK) -- 7. Un-British: Popular Crime Fiction and Film Adaptation / Glyn White (University of Salford, UK) -- 8. Masters and Servants, Class and the Colonies in 1940s British Fiction / Rebecca Dyer (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA) -- 9. Here is the Key of the Suitcase: Exiled Writers in Britain / Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth University, UK) -- 10. Author Study: Elizabeth Bowen and Her Female Contemporaries / Anna Teekell (Christopher Newport University, USA) -- Timeline of Works Timeline of National Events Timeline of International Events -- Biographies of Key Writers -- Index. "How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded drastic and decisive changes to old certainties. Moving from potential invasion and defeat to victory, the creation of the welfare state and a new Cold War threat, the pace of historical change seemed too rapid and monumental for writers to match. Consequently the 1940s were often side-lined in literary accounts as a dividing line between periods and styles. Drawing on more recent scholarship and research, this volume surveys and analyses this period's fascinating diversity, from novels of the Blitz and the Navy to the rise of important new voices with its contributors exploring the work of influential women, Commonwealth, exiled, genre, avant-garde and queer writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the intriguing decade, this book offers substantial chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell as well as covering such writers as Jocelyn Brooke, Monica Dickens, James Hadley Chase, Patrick Hamilton, Gerald Kersh, Daphne Du Maurier, Mary Renault, Denton Welch and many others."--
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