British literature of the Blitz[elec...
Miller, Kristine, (1966-)

 

  • British literature of the Blitz[electronic resource] :fighting the people's war /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9/358
    書名/作者: British literature of the Blitz : fighting the people's war // Kristine A. Miller.
    作者: Miller, Kristine,
    出版者: Basingstoke [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: xii, 216 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - 20th century
    標題: World War, 1939-1945 - Literature and the war. - Great Britain
    標題: War and literature - History - 20th century. - Great Britain
    標題: War in literature.
    標題: Ideology in literature.
    標題: Bombardementen.
    標題: Tweede Wereldoorlog.
    標題: Romans.
    標題: Engels.
    ISBN: 9780230234321
    ISBN: 0230234321
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index.
    內容註: Fighting the people's war -- Mobile women in Elizabeth Bowen's war writing -- Immobile women in Rosamond Lehmann's war writing -- Real men in Henry Green's war writing -- No escape in the detective and spy fiction of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Graham Greene -- The film-minded public.
    摘要、提要註: Analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in British literature and film of the Blitz, this book interrogates the ideal of the People b2 ss War, which claimed to unite men and women of all classes in defence of the home front. The subtitle b6 s Fighting the People b2 ss War b6 s describes the way that British citizens not only cooperated to fight Nazi Germany but also questioned the nationalist ideologybinding them together. The paradox of the People's War is that it counters a totalitarian threat with a potentially totalizing ideal: becauseit is both patriotic and utopian, the rhetoric resists critique, even though the right to question compulsory nationalism was precisely what Britain was fighting for. Above all else, British literature of the Blitz values the voicing of individual opinion, even b6 s or especially b6 s when individuals do not agree: a utopia that denies the freedom tocritique utopianism is no utopia at all.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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