What was the metropolitan aesthetic of Blitzed London as represented in literature?

What was the metropolitan aesthetic of Blitzed London as represented in literature?

The ‘Big City’ is often seen as displaying a number of key characteristics. These include the drumbeat regularity and monotony of everyday life, the cold concrete indifference of people and buildings and the sense of alienation these factors can bring about. A bombed ‘Big City’, having been stripped of its earlier facade both in terms of the ones its inhabitants carry and in material terms must look towards redefining and rebuilding itself and in constructing a new ideology or reaffirming an old one. This essay will look primarily at two works written during the Blitz of London, ‘The End of The Affair’ by Graham Greene, published in 1951 and Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Heat of the Day’, first published in 1948. The essay will seek to examine how the novels may represent this idea of a new metropolitan aesthetic or a poetic vision of the city arising out of its destruction.
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