Late Cold War Literature and Culture The Nuclear 1980s
This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction. Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children’s and young adult literature, thrillers
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Daniel Cordle
Late Cold War Literature and Culture The Nuclear 1980s
Daniel Cordle Nottingham Trent University Nottingham, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-51307-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51308-3
ISBN 978-1-137-51308-3 (eBook)
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To Emily and Elliot Cordle and Matthew, Rebecca and Adam Gell
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful for the support, interest and camaraderie of academic and other colleagues in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University, particularly Professor Phil Leonard who has put up with sharing both an office and numerous nuclear conversations. Their commitment to ideals of knowledge, education and collegiality, in the face of forces in higher education often antithetical to those things, is deeply heartening. I am grateful too to colleagues and students on my nuclear literature modules at NTU who over many years have brought inspiration, insight and delight. Scholars of nuclear and Cold War culture in Britain and around the world have taught me much and invigorated my work with their articles, books, conversation and enthusiasm. Members of the British Society for Literature and Science have nurtured my understanding of related areas and provided more general inspiration, and the hard work and professionalism of staff at Palgr
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