Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain - Romantic Protest, 1945-1980 (Paperback)

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 of an industrialized society.