Browse Hierarchy ESH270: The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918-1948

The years following the First World War saw dramatic social, cultural, and political changes in British life. Despite the radical global developments which followed the Second World War, the paradigm shift in British cultural life, the sense that one age had ended, and another - darker, more complex, less certain - epoch had begun, occurred in the aftermath of the trench wars in Europe. This course will explore the ways in which the writers of the period engaged with its turbulent politics.