Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Age of Anxiety and Influence; or Tradition and the Thirties Talents 3. Illusion and Reality: the Spectre of Socialist Realism in Thirties Literature 4. 'Alien Experiences': Virginia Woolf, Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain in the Thirties 5. Remembering Bryden's Bill: Modernism from Eliot to Auden 6. Believing in the Thirties 7. 'A Marvellous Drama out of Life': Yeats, Pound, Bunting and Villon at Rapallo 8. Thirties Poetry and the Landscape of Suburbia 9. Politics and Beauty: the Poetry of Randall Swingler 10. 'Irritating Tricks': Aesthetic Expermentation and Political Theatre 11. Modernism and the People: the View from the Cinema Stalls 12. Post/Modern Documentary: Orwell, Agee and the New Reportage 13. Blood and Marmalade: Negotiations between the State and Domestic in George Orwell's Early Novels Works Cited Index
Keith Williams is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee, UK.