After the Trauma: Representative British Novelists Since 1920 - Paperback
by Harvey Curtis Webster (Author)
In this lucid book a distinguished scholar and critic measures British fiction from World War I through the convulsive effects of the Depression and World War II, and the importance of the writing that has been done since Finnegan's Wake. Webster presents a moving account of the shattering impact of the Great War upon British writers, particularly Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. The cynicism and despair which afflicted them also bore heavily on the novelists
Harvey Curtis Webster is professor of English at the University of Louisville. He has been a Fulbright professor at the University of Durham and the University of Leeds and has published essays and reviews in Saturday Review, Kenyon Review, Nation, Poetry, New Republic and other leading magazines.
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