Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II

Author/Contributor(s):	Seiler, Claire
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	08/11/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Claire Seiler argues that a sense of suspension--a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors and opaque horizons--shaped transatlantic literary forms and cultural expression in this singular moment.