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In recent years, the literature of the middle of the twentieth century has come into its own. Now recognized as a period of exceptional invention, not merely the weak successor to the great age of high modernism, the 1930s through the 1960s gave us texts that, among other things, offer windows onto the birth of the postwar order. This course will examine challenging, fascinating, sometimes infuriating writing about World War II, the rise of the welfare state, and the “colonization in reverse” that brought the Windrush writers from the Caribbean to England. Authors studied may include Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, T.S. Eliot, H.D., Richard Hoggart, George Lamming, Philip Larkin, Marghanita Laski, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Wain, Virginia Woolf, and John Wyndham.