British Literature of the Blitz

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Fighting the People’s War

   • Kristine A. Miller

   Pages 1-25

3. Mobile Women in Elizabeth Bowen’s War Writing

   • Kristine A. Miller

   Pages 26-58

4. Immobile Women in Rosamond Lehmann’s War Writing

   • Kristine A. Miller

   Pages 59-82

5. Real Men in Henry Green’s War Writing

   • Kristine A. Miller

   Pages 83-115

6. No Escape in the Detective and Spy Fiction of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Graham Greene

   • Kristine A. Miller

   Pages 116-151

7. The Film-Minded Public

   • Kristine A. Miller

   Pages 152-188

8. Back Matter

   Pages 189-216

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British Literature of the Blitz interrogates the patriotic, utopian ideal of the People's War by analyzing conflicted representations of class and gender in literature and film. Its subtitle – Fighting the People's War – describes how British citizens both united to fight Nazi Germany and questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together.

• English literature
• fiction
• film
• ideology
• Utopia
• British and Irish Literature

'One of the great achievements of [Miller's] books is the insistence on the material realities of World War II that challenged the moral consciousness of the world... A major implication of [Kristine Miller's] studies is that the next step in research on World War II British literature should relate writing from the home front to that which engages Britain's global roles in this catclysmic war.' - Phyllis Lasner, Northwestern University

'...a fascinating look at a prominent but little understood chapter of European modernity...an important contribution to the study of the modern literature on war.' - Modern Fiction Studies

KRISTINE A. MILLER is Associate Professor and Associate Department Head of English at Utah State University, USA. She has published on modern British literature in Modern Fiction Studies, Genre, Twentieth Century Literature and the Journal of Modern Literature.

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