Writers of the Old School

British Novelists of the 1930s
Herausgegeben:Colt, Rosemary M.; Rossen, Janice

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Produktbeschreibung

This charts the emergence of British writers who assimilated the experimentation of the modernists in a realist tradition, also crafting their own distinctive literary voice. The essays in this volume cover a broad range of authors including George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-11829-8
• 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 209
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781349118298
• ISBN-10: 134911829X
• Artikelnr.: 44461422

Inhaltsangabe

Orwell's fictions of the thirties, Peter Firchow; an aesthete in the foundry - Henry Green's "Living", Mary R Davidson; Anthony Powell's archetypal characters, Rosemary M. Colt; Evelyn Waugh's modernity, Alain Blayac; modernist in search of an audience - Graham Greene in the thirties, Barry Menikoff; running away from home - perpetual transit in Elizabeth Bowen's novels, Janice Rossen; in another country - Sylvia Townsend Warner at large, J. Lawrence Michell; the torment of loving - inter-war novels of Rosamond Lehmann, Judy Simons; the politics of exile - Christopher Isherwood, Kay Ferres; Christopher Isherwood - autobiography as mask, Bernard Benstock; brief biographies of important 1930's novelists.