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Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain : Romantic Protest, 1945-1980
Fantasy the Bomb and the Greening of Britain Romantic Protest 19451980 Author:Meredith Veldman This work explores the essential ideas and assumptions of three very different cultural developments in post-World War II Britain: the fantasy literature of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and the response it provoked; the protests that emerged in the late 1950s against Britain's possession of nuclear weapons; and the early Green movement of th... more »e 1960s and 1970s. It shows that these three products of middle-class culture should be placed within the British intellectual and cultural tradition of romantic protest against industrialised society.« less