Cold War Stories: British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990

ISBN-13: 9783319615479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 168 str.

Andrew Hammond

Opis

This book is the first comprehensive study of mainstream British dystopian fiction and the Cold War.

Recenzje

"There are interesting snippets of cultural history-secret service espionage, fear of Soviet invasion, the growth of the European Economic Community-and I learned a lot." (Andrew M. Butler, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 46, 2019)

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. Cold War Anxieties.- 3. A Weakened Nation.- 4. The Art of Dystopia.

O autorze

Andrew Hammond is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. His research interests are Cold War fiction, twentieth-century British fiction, postcolonial literature and theory and cross-cultural representation. Previous publications include The Novel and Europe (editor, 2016), British Fiction and the Cold War (2013) and British Literature and the Balkans (2010).