Book contents
- Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War
- Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Untimely Deaths and Artful Promise in Henry James’s Post-1890 Writings
- Chapter 2 Reading Henry James in First World Wartime
- Chapter 3 Imaginary Widowhood in Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘A Year I Remember – 1918’ and A World of Love
- Chapter 4 Retroactive Judgements in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day
- Chapter 5 Traitors, Treason, and ‘Topsy-Turvy’ Values in Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Summer After the War’ and An Artist of the Floating World
- Chapter 6 Art and Consolation in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
- Index
Dedication
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2024
- Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War
- Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Untimely Deaths and Artful Promise in Henry James’s Post-1890 Writings
- Chapter 2 Reading Henry James in First World Wartime
- Chapter 3 Imaginary Widowhood in Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘A Year I Remember – 1918’ and A World of Love
- Chapter 4 Retroactive Judgements in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day
- Chapter 5 Traitors, Treason, and ‘Topsy-Turvy’ Values in Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Summer After the War’ and An Artist of the Floating World
- Chapter 6 Art and Consolation in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025