"Assesses the impact of World War II and the welfare state on literary fiction by focusing on how housing reconstruction created a sheltered space for the mediation between individual subjects and the social and geographical environments that they...
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"Assesses the impact of World War II and the welfare state on literary fiction by focusing on how housing reconstruction created a sheltered space for the mediation between individual subjects and the social and geographical environments that they encountered. Argues writers spanning various social positions and aesthetic tendencies-Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, and Elizabeth Taylor-engaged with literary realism as a way to shape postwar life"--
An urgent invitation: theorizing postwar realist writing -- Billets and boardinghouses: shared space and the reconstruction novel -- Mobile housing: realizing movement in 1950s city fiction -- Country houses: nostalgia and the realist challenge -- Safe houses: seeking shelter and connection post-consensus