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British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar Edited by Gill Plain Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11901-7 — British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar Edited by Gill Plain Index More Information Index 1066 and All That, 22 Allsop, Kenneth, 245, 255, 266 Adventure Lit Their Star, 251, 255–8, 261 Abbey, Edward The Sun Himself Must Die, 257–8 The Monkey Wrench Gang, 255 Almeida Theatre, London, 329 abjection, 261, 264 Ambler, Eric, 103 abortion, 9, 80, 297, 321 The Dark Frontier, 252 Achebe, Chinua, 20 Journey into Fear, 103 Things Fall Apart, 10 American cultural hegemony, 7, 12, 18, 78, 366 Adam, Ruth, 339 American studio system, 12 Admass, 7, 139, 201, 202 Amis, Kingsley, 192 adventure fiction, 18, 34, 213, 214, 269, 355, 387 Anand, Mulk Raj, 10, 118 affluence, 37, 47, 116, 192, 193, 195, 247, 285, 290, Untouchable, 118 316, 324, 367 Anderson, Benedict, 129 African American literature, 122 Anderson, Lindsay, 152 African literature, 28 Angelou, Maya, 329 Agate, James, 70 angry young men, 2, 21, 26, 34, 53, 68, 77, 78, 82, Agnew, John, 178 192, 194, 198, 285 aircraft, 122, 125, 131, 171, 257, 363, 383 angry young women, 314 anti-aircraft regiments, 129 Anthology of West Indian Poetry, 189 de Havilland Comet, 8 Antigua, 135 flight, experience of, 258 Antiquity, 197 jet age, the, 112 anti-Semitism, 9, 168, 294 Luftwaffe, 99, 129 anxiety, 29, 170, 226, 245, See also Auden, The Age Wellington bomber, 257 of Anxiety Aistrop, Jack, 153 affluence, and, 316 Backstage with Joe, 154, 155 anxiety of influence, 15 Bugle Blast, 153 class, and, 12, 273 The Lights Are Low, 155 Cold War, and, 19, 113, 164 Pretend I am a Stranger, 153, 154 cultural anxiety, 17, 111, 139, 140, 395 Alain-Fournier Dasein, and, 167 Le Grand Meaulnes, 272 death of others, and, 172 Aldermaston Marches, 204 decline of deference, and, 11, 72 Aldridge, John W., 160 demobilisation, and, 6, 101, 250, 268 alienation, 22, 34, 62, 75, 77, 89, 132, 140, 156, 193, domestic disorder, and, 289 202, 245 emptiness, and, 170 Allen, Agnes futurity, and, 140 The Story of Your Home, 217 impact of war, and, 140 Allen, Walter, 282, 371 literature of, 334 Allied Control Commission, 170, 175 maternal, 115 Allingham, Margery, 102 modernity, and, 33 The Tiger in the Smoke, 108 poetics of, 140 400 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11901-7 — British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar Edited by Gill Plain Index More Information Index 401 postwar ‘remasculinisation’, and, 101 barbed wire trope, 162, 163, 164, 203, sexuality, and, 10, 297, 358 353, 360 social change, and, 84 Barker, George, 62 transition, and, 29 Barker, Keith, 212 war on crime, and, 107, 110, 269 Barne, Kitty writing process, and, 245, 246, 335, 398 Visitors from London, 215 Apartheid, South Africa, 326 Barnett, Anthony, 144 Apocalypse, the, 22, 382 Barnhisel, Greg, 184, 186, 226 Apocalyptic poets, 33 Baron, Alexander, 356 Arden, John, 247, 323, 324, 325 Baroque, 165, 334, 385, 386, 387, 389, 390, 391, 392, Live Like Pigs, 324 394, 399 Serjeant Musgrove’s Dance, 324–5 Barth, John, 385, 386, 395, 396 The Waters of Babylon, 323, 324 Bartie, Angela, 73 Arendt, Hannah, 168, 381 Bates, H. E., 356 Armstrong, Richard ‘Something in the Air’, 128 Sea Change, 224 Baxter, Beverley, 69 Army Bureau of Current Affairs (ABCA), Play Baxter, Walter Unit, 69, 74 The Image and the Search, 298 Arts Council, 7, 26, 69, 73, 225, 228, 229, 235 Look Down in Mercy, 304, 305–6 atom bomb. See nuclear Bayley, John Auden, W. H., 19, 33, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 67, 90, 139, In Another Country, 155 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 168, 170, 171, 172, Beckett, Samuel, 68, 71, 75, 76, 78, 84, 173, 175, 177, 179, 190, 359 319, 396 ‘1 September 1939’, 157 All That Fall, 26 The Age of Anxiety, 164, 165–70 Endgame, 320, 322 ‘Elegy for W. B. Yeats’, 56 Waiting for Godot, 65, 71 ‘The Fall of Rome’, 182 Bedford, Sybille, 355, 360, 363 ‘Memorial for the City’, 162, 163, 164 The Faces of Justice, 358 Paid on Both Sides, 163 The Sudden View, 363, 365 Auschwitz, 59 The Beginning or the End, 380 austerity, 8, 9, 26, 37, 42, 43, 44, 46, 54, 102, 116, Behan, Brendon 144, 176, 178, 181, 183, 195, 290, 334, 342, The Quare Fellow, 322 355, 398 Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 314, 316 anti-austerity fantasy, 112 Bell, The, 93 austerity novel, 8, 33, 37–51 Benjamin, Walter, 238 verbal excess, and, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, Bennett, Louise, 127, 130 47, 48 ‘The Victory Parade’, 127 class intersections, and, 43, 44 Bennett, Tony, 111, 114, 115 clothing shortage, 48, 49, 50 Bentley, Phyllis, 339 food shortage, 9, 38, 39, 41, 44, 45, 48, 49, 147 Bergen-Belsen, 359 paper shortage, 4, 39, 182 Berger, John, 140, 237, 238, 239, 240 Austria G, 240 Austrian refugees, 71 A Painter of Our Time, 238–40, 241 Bergonzi, Bernard, 283 Bacon, Francis, 183, 236, 237, 238 Betjeman, John, 339 Bagnold, Enid Bevan, Aneurin, 339 The Chalk Garden, 78, 79 Bevin, Ernest, 149 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 371 Beyond the Fringe, 320 Balchin, Nigel Bildungsroman, 17, 99, 120, 246, 269, 272, 285–9 Mine Own Executioner, 154 Billy Liar (film adaptation), 292, 293 Balfour, Arthur, 159 birth control, 297 Ballard, J. G., 23, 261 Black British literature, 23, 117, See also under Banbury, Frith, 327, 329 theatre Bandung Conference, 187 black market, 44, 104, 156, 279 Barbados, 119, 135, 362 blackout, 4, 68, 69, 123, 129, 144, 178 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11901-7 — British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar Edited by Gill Plain Index More Information 402 Index Blair, Eileen, 341 Broadcasting House, 252 Blair, Tony, 150 Eastern European Service, 186 Blake, William, 123, 171, 206, 229, 230 Eastern Service, 118, 340–1 Blanton, C. D., 63, 64 Home Service, 26, 121, 195 Blast, 153, 155 Overseas Service, 117 Blitz, the, 29, 47, 57, 122, 128–9, 151, 171, 172, 178, West Indian Service, 118 284, 286, 293, 360 British Council, 7, 85, 161, 173, 341 blitzkrieg, 123 British Medical Journal, 152 Blue Lamp, The, 107, 108 British Nationality Act (1948), 9, 35, 325 Boer War, 17, 122 Brittain, Vera Boland, Bridget, 70 England’s Hour, 16 Cockpit, 72, 74 broadcasting. See radio and television bombing, 4, 55, 57, 68, 75, 87, 96, 99, 119, 120, 122, Brooke, Jocelyn, 157, 158 123, 129, 161, 162, 166, 171, 172, 252, 253, The Image of a Drawn Sword, 157 255, 257, 271, 277, 282, 284, 287, 323, ‘Something about a war’, 157 357, 363 Brooke, Rupert, 394 Coventry, bombardment of (1940), 60, 129, Buffet, Bernard, 237 286, 296 Bull, John, 315 bombsites, 139, 166, 250, 251, 258, 259, 260, 261, Bunting, Basil, 64 263, 265, 268, 284, 290, 293, 296, 359, 397 Burgess, Anthony, 19, 252, 382 Bond, Edward, 318 A Clockwork Orange, 158, 193, 370 Bond, James (fictional character), 34, 103, Malayan Trilogy, 19–20 110–16, 338 Burkett, Jodi, 204 Borges, Jorge Luis, 385, 386 Burlingham, Dorothy, 268 Borneo Burt, Stephen, 66–7 Japanese occupation of, 144 Butts, Dennis, 210 Bowen, Elizabeth, 3, 4, 15, 16, 179, 182, 247, Byatt, A. S., 398 339, 361 The Heat of the Day, 41–2, 155, 156, 159–60, 372 Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 125, 339 ‘Summer Night’, 151 Calling the West Indies, 118, 121, 122, 126, 134 Bowlby, John, 278 Calling West Africa, 122 Bradbury, Malcolm, 283 calypso, 120 Brane, John, 246 Cambridge University of. See undergraduate Room at the Top, 284, 285, 289–92, 293, 294 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 7, Braithwaite, R. B. R. 198, 202, 204, 322 ‘The Backslider’, 128 launch of, 204 Bratby, John, 230, 236, 237 Camus, Albert, 33, 65 Brathwaite, Kamau, 328 The Stranger, 65–6 Brearton, Fran Canada, 96, 130 magic numbers, 21, 35, 335 canon formation, 3, 23, 24, 25, 47, 70, 210, 211, Brecht, Bertolt, 34, 68, 71, 75, 76, 78, 84, 325 212, 218, 313, 316, 317, 318, 323, 326, 327 Mother Courage and Her Children, 75 capital punishment, 9, 66, 98, 322 Brewer, Mary F., 74 capitalism, 79, 112, 189, 194, 195, 198, 202, 239, 253, Brewster, Yvonne, 327 263, 264, 366 Bridge, L. A. M. welfare capitalism, 53 ‘Jamaican Interlude’, 128 Capote, Truman, 183 Bridie, James, 69 Carberry, H. D. bright young things, the, 42 ‘Oh Europe, Europe’, 125–6 Bristol Old Vic, The, 69 Caribbean literature, 10, 27, 28, 247 Bristol Repertory Company, 70 Caribbean Voices programme, 118, 120, 125, Bristol Theatre School, 70 127, 128 Bristol University Drama Department, 70, 84 Caribbean, the, 118, 124, 189, 190, 328, 329 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 5, 7, 13, as wartime space, 119 26, 35, 108, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 125, 132, immigration, and, 325 134, 161, 181, 190, 317, 341, 342, 344 Carnegie Medal. See under prizes, literary © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-11901-7 — British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar Edited by Gill Plain Index More Information Index 403 Carroll, David, 234 citizenship, 9, 28, 35, 269 Cary, Joyce, 140, 227, 236, 240 City Reborn, A, 61 Art and Reality, 231 civil rights movement, 207 The Horse’s Mouth, 226–31, 241 civilians, 49, 50, 57, 104, 155, 165, 166, 250, 254, Caseg Press, 88, 89 304, 358, 397 catastrophe fiction, 7, 334, 369–84 bombing and morale, 151 Celtic, 33, 55, 62, 63, 87, 88, 94, 222 celebration of virtues of, 102 censorship, 72, 79, 80, 164, 246, 320, 321, 339, 341 citizen in uniform, 106, 107 Central Office of Information, 87 civilian trauma, 103 Cervantes, Miguel de, 206 civilian/combatant boundary, 6 Chamberlain, Brenda, 88, 89, 98, 100 Clark, Kenneth, 227 ‘Dead Ponies’, 88, 89 Clarke, Peter, 316 Chamberlain, Neville, 147 class, 27, 40, 49, 246, 247, 390 Chapman, Henry aristocracy,
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