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Citizenship in Mid-Century British Literature : War, Statehood, Extinction.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hepburn, Allan.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2027.
- Summary:
- In Britain, the parameters of citizenship and its reciprocal relations shifted dramatically during and after the World War II through measures implemented in the welfare state. Allan Hepburn explores how novelists speculated, with nuclear catastrophe in mind, on how states come into existence, how long they last, and what causes them to fail.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Citizenship inMid-Century British Literature : War, Statehood, Extinction
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1: The Political Ambitions of Mid-Century British Fiction: Citizens, States, and Novels
- Equalities and Inequalities
- War and After
- Citizens of Tomorrow
- States and Statehood
- Islands
- On Minorness
- 2 : World Citizens: George Orwell, Aliens, and the State
- Aliens
- Nineteen Eighty-Four and the State
- The Idea of Europe
- In Darkest Germany
- Nuclear Citizens
- Uncertain Futures
- 3: Race and Citizenship
- War, Race, and The Chequer Board
- Racialized Citizenship
- To Sir with Love and the Sociology of Race
- Offshore
- A Hippie
- 4 : Citizens of Nowhere: Peter Wildeblood, Mary Renault, and the Queer State
- Veterans and Equality
- Sex
- Queer Citizenship
- A Regiment of Lovers
- The Last of the Wine
- Queer Statelessness
- 5 : All Citizens Are Soldiers: Alan Sillitoe and Military Service
- National Service
- Militarism in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- From Borstals to the Army
- Jungles
- All Citizens Are Soldiers
- 6 : Varieties of Extinction: John Wyndham's Future, William Golding's Prehistory
- Temporality and the Nuclear State
- Risk
- The Extinction of Species-The Inheritors
- Extermination-The Midwich Cuckoos
- 7: Making Good Citizens
- Novel Experience
- At the Festival of Britain
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-898766-8
- OCLC:
- 1586549932
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