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A.J. Cronin’s novel, The Citadel, was one of the best-selling novels of the interwar years. It was a medical novel about the career of a young doctor, with markedly political and social themes. It was also thought to be the almost perfect example of the ‘middlebrow’ novel. The purpose of this chapter is to suggest reasons why it was so popular before 1939, but also why Cronin was unable to write similarly successful novels after 1945. The answer, I argue, is that it was largely dependent upon a form of democracy which was undermined by the Second World War. |
