This book considers the literary construction of what E. M. Forster
calls 'the 1939 State', namely the anticipation of the Second World
War between the Munich crisis of 1938 and the end of the Phoney War
in the spring of 1940. Steve Ellis investigates not only myriad
responses to the imminent war but also various peace aims and plans
for post-war reconstruction outlined by such writers as T. S.
Eliot, H. G. Wells, J. B. Priestley, George Orwell, E. M. Forster
and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. He argues that the work of these
writers is illuminated by the anxious tenor of this period. The
result is a novel study of the 'long 1939', which transforms
readers' understanding of the literary history of the eve-of-war
era.
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