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"""An important subject is central to current scholarship British mid-century literature but it does so in an original way and--vitally--it marshals a range of writers with real élan.""--Leo Mellor, author of Reading the Ruins: Bombsites, Modernism and British Culture ""Paula Derdiger's Reconstruction Fiction is a welcome and necessary book, one that adds significantly to a richer and more nuanced understanding of twentieth-century British literature and culture.""--Todd Kuchta, author of Semi-Detached Empire: Suburbia and the Colonization of Britain, 1880 to the Present ""Paula Derdiger's monograph offers an insightful, persuasive, and long overdue theorizing of British fiction from the late 1940s to the 1970s--a period often neglected or summarily dismissed in accounts of the twentieth-century novel, which tend to privilege modernist experimentation at one end of the century and postmodernist innovation at the other."" --Mariadele Boccardi, Modern Language Review ""Paula Derdiger's book superbly meets the requirements of the second decade of the twenty-first century for new studies addressing the need to rebuild the social and material spheres that have been depredated by decades of the promotion of a neoliberal individualism."" --Nick Hubble, author of Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question"

An important subject is central to current scholarship British mid-century literature but it does so in an original way and--vitally--it marshals a range of writers with real elan. --Leo Mellor, author of Reading the Ruins: Bombsites, Modernism and British Culture Paula Derdiger's Reconstruction Fiction is a welcome and necessary book, one that adds significantly to a richer and more nuanced understanding of twentieth-century British literature and culture. --Todd Kuchta, author of Semi-Detached Empire: Suburbia and the Colonization of Britain, 1880 to the Present Paula Derdiger's book superbly meets the requirements of the second decade of the twenty-first century for new studies addressing the need to rebuild the social and material spheres that have been depredated by decades of the promotion of a neoliberal individualism. --Nick Hubble, author of Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question

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Paula Derdiger is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

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