A History of 1930s British Literature

ISBN-13: 9781108474535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 474 str.

Benjamin Kohlmann; Matthew Taunton

Opis

Offers a radically new picture of the 'long 1930s', describing it as a pivot of twentieth-century literary and cultural production.

Recenzje

'Kohlmann and Taunton have assembled a thrilling collection of essays that provide diverse and distinct entry points into the long, wide, and urgent 1930s.' Michael McCluskey, Modernism/Modernity

Spis treści

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 frère': 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. The scientific imagination and the politics of objectivity Boris Jardine; 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.