Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain

Download or read book Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain written by Meredith Veldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the 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.