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This book examines the relationship between war and gender through the analysis of literary texts. Focusing on the fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers, Stevie Smith, Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison and Elizabeth Bowen during the 1930s and 1940s, the book considers the different and sometimes contradictory ways in which British women writers responded both to the threat of war and to actual conflict in this period.

World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945, in literature --- Literature and the war.

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Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction is an illuminating and challenging critical study of this ever popular genre. In the book Gill Plain uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of crime fiction as a conservative genre. The rise of lesbian detection and the impact of serial killing are considered alongside detailed analyses of works by popular writers such as Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dick Francis and Sara Paretsky. Beginning with a radical reconceptualisation of genre categories, the book goes on to consider recent revisions and reappropriations of the form. The final section focuses on textual pleasure and the destabilising of genre boundaries, raising the timely question of whether the queering of crime fiction represents a revitalising paradigm shift or the conceptual collapse of the genre. The first substantial critical work on twentieth-century crime from a gender perspective. Provides in-depth textual analysis often missing from studies of popular fiction. Reappraises the framework within which crime fiction might be studied and taught. Sets key 'canonical' crime writers alongside both radical innovators and best-selling populists of the genre

American fiction --- Crime in literature --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- English fiction --- Human body in literature --- Popular literature --- Sex in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sexology --- Thematology --- Christie, Agatha --- Paretsky, Sara --- Crime in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Gender --- Homosexuality --- Female homosexuality --- LGBTQIA literature --- Images of women --- Women's literature --- Book --- Detective novels

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This new study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters - Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and Atomizing - the book sets middlebrow and popular writers alongside residual modernists and new voices to reconstruct the literary landscape of the period. Detailed case studies of fiction, drama and poetry provide fresh critical perspectives on writers as diverse as Margery Allingham, Alexander Baron, Elizabeth Bowen, Keith Douglas, Graham Greene, Henry Green, Georgette Heyer, Alun Lewis, Nancy Mitford, George Orwell, Mervyn Peake, J. B. Priestley, Terrence Rattigan, Mary Renault, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas and Evelyn Waugh. Arguing that the postwar is a concept that emerges almost simultaneously with the war itself, and that 'peace' is significant only by its absence in an emergent post-Atomic cold war era, this book reclaims the complexity of a decade all too often lost in the fault-lines between pre-war modernism and the emergence of the postmodern.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Nineteen forties. --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- 1940s --- 40s (Twentieth century decade) --- Forties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century

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Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II examines the social and psychic upheaval of demobilisation. It maps the rapid transition from wartime regimentation to individual responsibility, from intense homosociality to heteronormative expectations, from normativity to disability and from uniformed masculinity to domestic citizenship. This book considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir and biography. In particular, the book explores how technology was imagined as a new space of masculine becoming and how disability was written, represented and assimilated. Through a focus on popular narrative, this book explores the modes of masculinity promoted as ideally suited to national reconstruction and tries to make sense of a culture of rehabilitation that could not name or know itself as such.

Masculinity in popular culture --- Men --- Sociology of disability --- Psychic trauma --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History --- Identity --- Literature and the war. --- Influence. --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- People with disabilities --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Emotional trauma --- Injuries, Psychic --- Psychic injuries --- Trauma, Emotional --- Trauma, Psychic --- Psychology, Pathological --- Popular culture --- Sociological aspects

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