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1 online resource (xiv, 461 pages) : PDF file(s) |
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Introduction: The Long 1930s / Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton -- Part I. Mapping a new decade: Geographies and identities -- 1. Beyond Englishness: The regional and rural novel in the 1930s / Kristin Bluemel -- 2. Uncanny cities: Urban geographies and metropolitan life in the 1930s / Emma Zimmerman -- 3. The making of the working class: Proletarian writing in the 1930s / Nick Hubble -- 4. Professional women writers / Kristin Ewins -- 5. Queer Communist formations: Coterie, counterpublic, cell / Glyn Salton-Cox -- Part II. Media histories and the institutions of literature -- 6. Circulating literature: Libraries, bookshops, and book clubs / Andrew Thacker -- 7. Literature and education in the Long 1930s / Matthew Taunton -- 8. International PEN: Writers, free expression, organisations / Rachel Potter -- 9. The new reading public: Modernism, popular literature, and the paperbacks / Vike Martina Plock -- 10. Debatable ground: Journalism, pamphlets, and social critique / Peter Marks -- 11. 'Hypocrite auditeur, mon semblable, mon frere': Literature and the border of the radio public / Ian Whittington -- 12. Talking films / Laura Marcus -- 13. Telemediations / James Purdon -- Part III. Commitment and autonomy -- 14. Ambiguity run riot: Film-mindedness in the 1930s Avant Garde / Rod Mengham -- 15. 'A vein of insularity': British music in the Long 1930s / Louise Wiggins -- 16. Representing Fascism in 1930s literature / Tyrus Miller -- 17. The documentary impulse / Leo Mellor -- 18. Religion, Modernism and Anglo-Agnostics: (Un) belief and fiction in the 1930s / Suzanne Hobson -- 19. The colonial state and transnational welfare during the 1930s Depression / Janice Ho -- 20. Science fiction, left science and the politics of planning -- Part IV. The global 1930s: Conflict and change -- 21. Anglo-Soviet literary relations in the Long 1930s / John Connor -- 22. A declining empire in a rising power: British writers in America / Greg Barnhisel -- 23. Late Modernism and the Spanish Civil War / Patricia Rae -- 24. Total war / Marina MacKay -- 25. Colonial intellectuals and the aesthetic Cold War / Peter Kalliney -- 26. Imperial fictions: Writing the end of empire / Laura Winkiel |
| Summary |
This History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The '30s have often been cast as a literary-historical anomaly, either as a 'low, dishonest decade', a doomed experiment in combining art and politics, or as a 'late modernist' afterthought to the intense period of artistic experimentation in the 1920s. By contrast, the contributors to this volume explore the contours of a 'long 1930s' by repositioning the decade and its characteristic concerns at the heart of twentieth-century literary history. This book expands the range of writers covered, moving beyond a narrow focus on towering canonical figures to draw in a more diverse cast of characters, in terms of race, gender, class, and forms of artistic expression. The book's four sections emphasize the decade's characteristic geographical and sexual identities; the new media landscapes and institutional settings its writers operated in; questions of commitment and autonomy; and British writing's international entanglements |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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English literature
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Literature and society
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Schriftsteller
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kohlmann, Benjamin, 1981- editor.
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Taunton, Matthew, editor
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| ISBN |
9781108565592 |
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110856559X |
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9781108474535 |
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1108474535 |
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9781108464901 |
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1108464904 |
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