The Age of Anxiety (1945-1969)
Description
With the end of the Second World War, the cultural period W. H. Auden named the Age of Anxiety had begun-a time characterized by an intensifying fear of nuclear Armageddon as the Iron Curtain fell across Europe and the Cold War spread across the globe. This program examines the evolution of the British novel during the period 1945-69, spotlighting J. R. R. Tolkien, William Golding, Iris Murdoch, Kingsley Amis, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, George Lamming, Sam Selvon, Colin MacInnes, Ian Fleming, John le Carre, Doris Lessing, John Wyndham, Anthony Burgess, J. G. Ballard, and Margaret Drabble as well as some of their key works.
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76 min
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Date of Publication
[2011], c2010
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