This book explores the cultural formation of the anti-fascist Popular Front strategy in Britain and proposes a new framework for reading British fiction of this period.
This book explores the cultural formation of the anti-fascist Popular Front strategy in Britain and proposes a new framework for reading British fiction of this period.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Elinor Taylor, Ph.D. (2014), University of Salford, is currently a lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. She is the author of several articles on Communist writers.
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Acknowledgements Introduction The Popular Front Culture, Crisis and Democracy The Popular Front Novel Realism and Modernism 1 Anti-Fascist Aesthetics in International Context Socialist Realism British Developments Language, Form and Popularity Ralph Fox’s Realism Conclusion 2 John Sommerfield, May Day (1936) John Sommerfield: Literature and Activism Vox Populi and Bird’s Eye Montage and Memory Myth and Tradition Conclusion 3 Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky (1937) Bathos and Narrative Convention Failures of Articulation Conclusion History and the Historical Novel 4 History and the Historical Novel British Communists and English History The Historical Novel of the Popular Front Jack Lindsay’s English Trilogy Conclusion Class, Nation, People 5 James Barke and the National Turn The National Turn (I): British Questions The National Turn (II): Critical Voices ‘There is no Scottish National Question’ James Barke, Major Operation (1936) James Barke, The Land of the Leal (1939) Conclusion 6 Lewis Jones’s Fiction Shame, Vision and Reification Forms and Modes Spain and Home Conclusion Conclusion Works Cited Index
Acknowledgements Introduction The Popular Front Culture, Crisis and Democracy The Popular Front Novel Realism and Modernism 1 Anti-Fascist Aesthetics in International Context Socialist Realism British Developments Language, Form and Popularity Ralph Fox’s Realism Conclusion 2 John Sommerfield, May Day (1936) John Sommerfield: Literature and Activism Vox Populi and Bird’s Eye Montage and Memory Myth and Tradition Conclusion 3 Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky (1937) Bathos and Narrative Convention Failures of Articulation Conclusion History and the Historical Novel 4 History and the Historical Novel British Communists and English History The Historical Novel of the Popular Front Jack Lindsay’s English Trilogy Conclusion Class, Nation, People 5 James Barke and the National Turn The National Turn (I): British Questions The National Turn (II): Critical Voices ‘There is no Scottish National Question’ James Barke, Major Operation (1936) James Barke, The Land of the Leal (1939) Conclusion 6 Lewis Jones’s Fiction Shame, Vision and Reification Forms and Modes Spain and Home Conclusion Conclusion Works Cited Index
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