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Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain : Romantic Protest, 1945-1980  
Author: Meredith Veldman
ISBN: 0521440602
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
This work explores the essential ideas and assumptions of three very different cultural developments in post-World War II Britain: the fantasy literature of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and the response it provoked; the protests that emerged in the late 1950s against Britain's possession of nuclear weapons; and the early Green movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It shows that these three products of middle-class culture should be placed within the British intellectual and cultural tradition of romantic protest against industrialised society.




Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945-1980

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Responses to Lewis's and Tolkien's fantasy literature, protests against Britain's possession of nuclear weapons in the 1950s and the early Green movement of the 1960s and 1970s are interpreted within the British tradition of romantic protest against industrialized society.

     



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