Titlebook: British Literature of the Blitz; Fighting the People‘ Kristine A. Miller Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers L

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ss and gender in literature and film. Its subtitle – Fighting the People‘s War – describes how British citizens both united to fight Nazi Germany and questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together.978-1-349-36478-7978-0-230-23432-1

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,Introduction: Fighting the People’s War,ish cities came under siege beginning in September 1940, the common cause of national defense seemed to reduce distance between soldiers and civilians, to resolve differences between men and women, and to repair divisions between leisured and working classes. Politicians and the media emphasized the

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,Real Men in Henry Green’s War Writing,e ideal of the soldier hero. These noncombatant men often imagine the soldier not as he is but as an iconic standard of masculinity, a standard that civilians can necessarily never obtain. Left behind on the home front, they must therefore rethink masculinity and find other ways of being real men in

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No Escape in the Detective and Spy Fiction of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Graham Greenework self-consciously represents the changing class and gender dynamics that shaped upper-middle-class experience during the People’s War and critiques the limited perspective of the privileged few. This chapter turns its attention to genre fiction, arguing that wartime detective and spy novels offe

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08415-7Elizabeth Bowen feared intensely that the Blitz would paralyze her imagination. She acknowledges this anxiety in a review of V. S. Pritchett’s ., which she published in 1942, the same year as her family history, .:

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ss and gender in literature and film. Its subtitle – Fighting the People‘s War – describes how British citizens both united to fight Nazi Germany and questioned the nationalist ideology binding them together.978-1-349-36478-7978-0-230-23432-1

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