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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.
In The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934 1940, Elinor Taylor
provides the first study of the relationship between the British
novel and the anti-fascist Popular Front strategy endorsed by the
Comintern in 1935. Through readings of novels by British Communists
including, Taylor shows that the realist novel of the left was a
key site in which the politics of anti-fascist alliance were
rehearsed. This book at once illuminates the cultural formation of
the Popular Front in Britain and proposes a new framework for
reading British fiction of this period.
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