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Cordle, Daniel.

Late Cold War literature and culturethe nuclear 1980s /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Late Cold War literature and cultureby Daniel Cordle.
Reminder of title:	the nuclear 1980s /
Author:	Cordle, Daniel.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017.
Description:	xi, 229 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.20th century
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51308-3
ISBN:	9781137513083$q(electronic bk.)

Late Cold War literature and culturethe nuclear 1980s /
Cordle, Daniel.

Late Cold War literature and culturethe nuclear 1980s /[electronic resource] :by Daniel Cordle. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017. - xi, 229 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Protect-Protest: The Nuclear 1980s -- 1. The Most Explosive Love Story Ever: Transatlantic Nuclear Discourse -- 2. The Politics of Vulnerability: Protest and Nuclear Literature -- 3. Post-Containment Culture: Gender, Family and Society in the Late Cold War -- 4. Dust, Winter and Refuge: Environmentalism and Nuclear Literature -- 5. From the Ashes: Society and Economy in Nuclear Literature -- 6. Burning Books: Textual Preoccupations of Nuclear and Postmodern Culture -- Conclusion: Between the Wars -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Timeline -- Index.

This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction. Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children's and young adult literature, thrillers and horror, it shows how pressing nuclear issues were, particularly the possibility of nuclear war, were and how deeply they penetrated the culture. It is innovative for its discussion of a "nuclear transatlantic," placing British and American texts in dialogue with one another, for its identification of a vibrant young adult fiction that resonates with more conventionally studied literatures of the period and for its analysis of a "politics of vulnerability" animating nuclear debates. Placing nuclear literature in social and historical contexts, it shows how novels and short stories responded not only to nuclear fears, but also crystallised contemporary debates about issues of gender, the environment, society and the economy.

ISBN: 9781137513083$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-51308-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

175035
English fiction
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PN56.N83 / C67 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 823.914093581

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