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Andrew Hammond

Cold War Stories

British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990

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This book is the first comprehensive study of mainstream British dystopian fiction and the Cold War. Drawing on over 200 novels and collections of short stories, the monograph explores the ways in which dystopian texts charted the lived experiences of the period, offering an extended analysis of authors' concerns about the geopolitical present and anxieties about the national future. Amongst the topics addressed are the processes of Cold War (autocracy, militarism, propaganda, intelligence, nuclear technologies), the decline of Britain's standing in global politics and the reduced status of intellectual culture in Cold War Britain. Although t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-319-87108-0
  • EAN: 9783319871080
  • Produktnummer: 29980636
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 176 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D0.9 cm 236 g
  • Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 236

Über den Autor


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).

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