Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel

The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British Novel offers a new literary history of the Second World War and its aftermath by focusing on wartime visions of rebuilding Britain. Shifting attention from the "People''s War" to the "People''s Peace," this book shows that literature returns to the historic transition from warfare to welfare to narrate its transformative social potential and darker fai...