Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: DARKNESS IN THE MIND The World Gone Mad in Wartime Gothic and Fabulist Tales Grieving and Madness PART II: PASSION Romance Betrayal PART III: WIT AND REASON Academic and Detective Novels 'The Higher Common Sense' Notes Index

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Janice Rossen is the author of "The World of Barbara Pym", "Philip Larkin: His Life's Work" and "The University in Modern Fiction: When Power is Academic".

About the Author

JANICE ROSSEN is Senior Research Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. She has written The World of Barbara Pym, Philip Larkin: His Life's Work, and The University in Modern Fiction: When Power is Academic, in addition to a biography of Philip Toynbee. She has co-edited volumes on 1930s British novelists and Ageing and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity.