A deeply researched, tightly argued, and immensely valuable study. It stands among the strongest contributions to the growing new institutionalism in literary studies...A fascinating treatment of its subject...Makes a case for the importance of thinking institutions differently in the present: this is as much a work of intellectual history and reclamation as of literary scholarship.
Benjamin Kohlmann teaches English literature at the University of Regensburg. His first monograph, Committed Styles: Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. With Matthew Taunton he is co-editor of A History of 1930s British Literature (CUP, 2019), and his articles have been published in PMLA, ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, Novel, and other journals.