This book identifies memory a previously unexamined concern in both literary and popular writing of the 1940s. Emphasizing the use of memory as a structural device, this book traces developments in narrative, during and immediately after the war. Authors include Margery Allingham, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Patrick Hamilton and Denton Welch.

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'Stewart's study offers an astute understanding of how writers during the 1940s conceived of the past, how they understood memory, and what they believed should be remembered and preserved for the future... it makes an important contribution to studies of the novel in the twentieth century.' - Carolyn Perry, Literature& History

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VICTORIA STEWART is Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Leicester, UK. She is also the author of Women's Autobiography: War and Trauma (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

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Book Title: Narratives of Memory
Book Subtitle: British Writing of the 1940s
Authors: Victoria Stewart
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230624986
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-9703-6Published: 12 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54597-1Published: 12 October 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62498-6Published: 12 October 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 218
Topics: Fiction, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Remembering the Last War

Damaged Minds Crime and Detection

Remembering the Country

In Time of War

Conclusion

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