Description
This vivid reading of wartime culture investigates the significance of London's bombsites by bringing together famous and forgotten authors.
About the Author
Leo Mellor is the Roma Gill Fellow in English and a Newton Trust Lecturer at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.
Reviews
"...a rich and widely ranging book, Mellor considers how ruins feature as both a trope and also a fact of life in writing from before and during the conflict....Mellor manages to defamiliarize texts that have become mainstays of studies of Second World War writing, and makes inventive and productive connections between seemingly disparate voices. Essential for scholars interested in Second World War literature and culture, this book is also an important contribution to the understanding of developments in modernism in mid-twentieth-century Britain, and deserves a wide readership." -VICTORIA STEWART, University of Leicester, The Review of English Studies
"...It rewards careful reading from start to finish, for both the wealth of understudied material it introduces and the close readings that go with it. Properly digested, its contents will serve an important purpose indeed, refuting for once and for all any suggestion that modernism weakened and died around 1940." --Journal of British Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781107534438
Author Leo Mellor
Format Paperback
Page Count 255
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 390g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 15mm