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The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction de Dr Nick Hubble

The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction: The Decades Series

Editat de Dr Nick Hubble, Dr Luke Seaber, Dr Elinor Taylor
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 ian 2021
With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generation', this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and cultural democratization that characterized the decade. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine Burdekin, Agatha Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350079144
ISBN-10: 1350079146
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Decades Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Writers covered include Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Mulk Raj Anand, Christopher Isherwood, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Naomi Mitchison and Agatha Christie

Notă biografică

Nick Hubble is Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), The 1970s (2014), The 1990s (2015), The 2000s (2015) and London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016) all published by Bloomsbury. Luke Seaber is Tutor in Modern European Culture at University College London, UK. He is the author of Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation (2017). Elinor Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940 (2018).

Cuprins

Contributors Series Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgements Introduction: The 1930s in the Twenty-First Century Nick Hubble, Burnel University, UK, Luke Seaber, University College London, UK and Elinor Taylor, University of Westminster, UK1. 'You're not in the market at Shielding, Joe': Beyond the Myth of the 'Thirties'Nick Hubble 2. Spectres of English Fascism: History, Aesthetics and Cultural CritiqueElinor Taylor 3 Naomi Mitchison and the Class and Gender Politics of EugenicsNatasha Periyan, University of Kent, UK 4. British Culture and Identity in 1930s Anglophone Literature from Australia, Canada and IndiaSabujkoli Bandopadhyay, University of Regina, Canada 5. Timely Interventions and Disruptive Temporalities: Queer Writing of the 1930sGlyn Salton-Cox, University of California Santa Barabara, USA 6. Private Faces in Public Places: Auto-Intertextuality, Authority and 1930s FictionLuke Seaber 7. 'How To Acquire Culture' by The Man Who Sees: The Middlebrow, Liberal Humanism, and Morally Superior Lower-Middle-Class Citizenship in Woman's Weekly, 1938-1939Ellie Reed, University of Roehampton, UK 8. 'It's a narsty biziness': Conservatism and Subversion in 1930s Detective Fiction and ThrillersGlyn White, University of Salford, UK Timeline of WorksTimeline of National EventsTimeline of International EventsBiographies of WritersIndex

Recenzii

An indispensable book for students and scholars of 1930s literary culture
Too long caricatured as an anomalous 'Red Decade', the real importance of the 1930s as a node of twentieth-century literary and cultural production can no longer be in doubt. The insightful contributions to this volume turn to works that have tended to fall by the wayside of literary historiography. In reclaiming a rich body of middlebrow, queer, working-class, and feminist writings, this superb collection explains how and why the '30s should matter to us.
This bold addition to the Bloomsbury Decades Series transforms the weary "Thirties" into an intriguing new literary period. It presents cutting-edge research on queer, proletarian, anti-racist, and feminist writings that encompass bourgeois modernism while speaking directly to twenty-first century dreams of a liberated future.