British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940: Futility and Anarchy (Hardcover)

Literature from the 'political' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the 'aesthetic' 1920s. This collection suggests a different approach. Drawing on recent work expanding our sense of the political and aesthetic energies of interwar modernisms, these chapters track transitions in British literature. The strains of national break-up, class dissension and political instability provoked a new literary order, and reading across the two decades between the wars exposes the continuing pressure of these transitions. Instead of following familiar markers - 1922, the Crash, the Spanish Civil War - or isolating particular themes from literary study, this collection takes key problems and dilemmas from literature 'in transition' and reads them across familiar and unfamiliar cultural works and productions, in their rich and contradictory context of publication. Themes such as gender, sexuality, nation and class are thus present throughout these essays. Major writers such as Woolf are read alongside forgotten and marginalised voices.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British Literature in Transition
Release date:	December 2018
Editors:	Charles Ferrall • Dougal Mcneill
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-14553-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-107-14553-8
Barcode:	9781107145535

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