Literary containment -- The nuclear debate -- An age of espionage -- From socialism to postmodernism -- The end of empire -- The American age.
Summary:
This title offers an analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of such geopolitical currents as communism, nuclearism, clandestinity, decolonisation and US superpowerdom, and explores the literary forms which writers developed to capture the complexities of the age.
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