![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recently, for example, Richard Overy’s The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilization, 1919-1939 (2009) paints a picture of Britain during these decades as a place fixated on the possibility that modernity and war will be fatal to civilization. Their feelings were undoubtedly widely shared at the time, and the image of Britain as a place of crisis, decline, pessimism, and anxiety persists to this day in the work of historians and literary critics. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Evelyn Waugh) who concocted a potent emotional cocktail from ingredients including survivor guilt, disappointment that they had missed being part of the action, anger at the futility of the “war to end war,” and disillusionment with modernity, which runs through their work. The dominant image of Britain in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s is largely the product of a small group of writers (for example, T.S. ![]()
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