British Literary Periodicals Of World War Ii And Aftermath: A Critical History

摘要

the very helpful four volume British Literary Magazines edited by Alvin Sullivan, published by the Greenwood Press in 1986. Tolley's "critical history of British literary periodicals published during" the 1939-1945 War "and its aftermath" aims also to discuss the periodicals themselves on an individual basis and to place them in their cultural context (p. ix). Tolley's introductory first chapter (pp. 1-9), attempts to tackle the issue of why he has chosen to write the history of periodicals during this period. The reasons given range from the availability of the primary materials, the intrinsic merit of the journals and their proliferation during the 1940s, "the cataclysmic events that filled those years and the consequences that attended them". Tolley notes "the wide circulation of so many literary periodicals during the war years had been very much due to people's need to come to terms with the war and the threatening situations that came with its disruption of their lives". Moreover, "with the coming of peace, there was the opportunity to start up again" (pp. 8-9).