A history of 1930s British literature
edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton.
Bok Engelsk 2019 · Electronic books.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xiv, 461 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 May 2019).. - Machine generated contents note: 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 Frere': 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.. - This History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The '30s have often been cast as a literary-historical anomaly, either as a 'low, dishonest decade', a doomed experiment in combining art and politics, or as a 'late modernist' afterthought to the intense period of artistic experimentation in the 1920s. By contrast, the contributors to this volume explore the contours of a 'long 1930s' by repositioning the decade and its characteristic concerns at the heart of twentieth-century literary history. This book expands the range of writers covered, moving beyond a narrow focus on towering canonical figures to draw in a more diverse cast of characters, in terms of race, gender, class, and forms of artistic expression. The book's four sections emphasize the decade's characteristic geographical and sexual identities; the new media landscapes and institutional settings its writers operated in; questions of commitment and autonomy; and British writing's international entanglements.
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| ISBN | 1-108-56559-X
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