The Age of Anxiety '1945-1969'

Overview

The end of WW2 saw the beginning of the atomic age - what WH Auden coined the Age of Anxiety had begun. The holocaust and the nuclear cloud dominated the sensibility of the period and as political tensions worsened, the mood of anxiety, horror and fear of possible armageddon intensified. A new generation of novelists were on hand to confront and articulate this age.