Overview
This is the first comprehensive study of modern British dystopian fiction
Addresses dystopian concerns which are rarely studied in scholarship
Argues that the British dystopian tradition evolved out of specific features of national experience, such as Britain’s engagement in the Cold War, the nation’s loss of global prestige and the declining status of literature in national culture
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“There are interesting snippets of cultural history—secret service espionage, fear of Soviet invasion, the growth of the European Economic Community—and I learned a lot.” (Andrew M. Butler, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 46, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cold War Stories
Book Subtitle: British Dystopian Fiction, 1945-1990
Authors: Andrew Hammond
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61548-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61547-9Published: 06 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87108-0Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61548-6Published: 28 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 168
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature