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Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II (Hardcover)
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Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II (Hardcover)
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Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain
and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence
and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers
ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to
Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, and Irene Nemirovsky.
Taking its cue from Percy Shelley's dictum that great writers are
to some extent created by the age in which they live, this book
shows how much the politics and warfare of the years from 1939 to
1941 drove the literature of this period. Its novels, poems, and
plays differ radically from histories of World War II
because-besides being works of imagination-- they are largely
products of a particular stage in the author's life as well as of a
time at which no one knew how the war would end. This is the first
comprehensive study of the impact of the outbreak of the Second
World War on the literary work of American, English, and European
writers during its first years.
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