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ref. 435927 — Routledge / Taylor & Francis. Paperback. Good. "Most studies of the interwar years have focused upon literary elites rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period or understand the changes within literary culture unless we recognise the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars. From the traumatic aftermath of the First World War Forever England traces the making of a conservative national temperament which could be defensive and protective yet modernising in outlook. In a series of literary anaylses the author suggests some of the tones and accents of this new version of Engli Routledge / Taylor & Francis paperback