Fiction during the second world war

Lara Feigel

doi:10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0004

Fiction during the second world war

Lara Feigel^*

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This chapter focuses on home front literature and concentrates particularly on literature portraying the wartime experience in London. The majority of war literature was produced by authors who had remained in London. These tended to be non-combatants, but played an often major role in the ARP (Air Raid Protection) services, defending their city. Henry Green, William Sansom, and Stephen Spender worked as firemen; Elizabeth Bowen and Graham Greene as ARP wardens; and Rose Macaulay as an ambulance driver. This was a community of writers who were facing danger and defending their city, rather like the soldier poets in the trenches in the First World War. These authors had direct experience of the various periods of bombing, as well as of the peculiar hiatus when the war carried on elsewhere.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	37-52
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9780198749394
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0004
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

Air raid protection
ARP
Civilian war experience
London
War literature
World war II

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