After the trauma : representative British novelists since 1920 / / Harvey Curtis Webster

• Autore: Webster Harvey Curtis <1906-1988, >
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University of Kentucky Press, , 1970; ©1970
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.9/1209
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One The Trauma; Chapter Two Rose Macaulay: A Christian a Little Agnostic; Chapter Three Aldous Huxley: Sceptical Mystic; Chapter Four Ivy Compton-Burnett: Factualist; Chapter Five Evelyn Waugh: Catholic Aristocrat; Chapter Six Mid-View: The 1930's; Chapter Seven Graham Greene: Stoical Catholic; Chapter Eight Joyce Cary: Christian Unclassified; Chapter Nine L. P. Hartley: Diffident Christian; Chapter Ten C. P. Snow: The Scientific Humanist; Chapter Eleven War, Cold; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this lucid book a distinguished scholar and critic measures British fiction from World War I through the convulsive effects of the Depression and World War II, and the importance of the writing that has been done since Finnegan's Wake.Webster presents a moving account of the shattering impact of the Great War upon British writers, particularly Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. The cynicism and despair which afflicted them also bore heavily on the novelists of the thirties and forties -- Graham Greene, Joyce Cary, L. P. Hartley, C. P. Snow, who endured the
• Titolo autorizzato: After the trauma
• ISBN: 0-8131-6513-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787475403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II