British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940: Futility and Anarchy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ferrall, Charles

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Produktbeschreibung

Literature from the 'political' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the 'aesthetic' 1920s. This collection suggests a different approach. Drawing on recent work expanding our sense of the political and aesthetic energies of interwar modernisms, these chapters track transitions in British literature. The strains of national break-up, class dissension and political instability provoked a new literary order, and reading across the two decades between the wars exposes the continuing pressure of these transitions. Instead of following familiar markers - 1922, the Crash, the Spanish Civil War - or isolating particular themes from literary study, this collection takes key problems and dilemmas from literature 'in transition' and reads them across familiar and unfamiliar cultural works and productions, in their rich and contradictory context of publication. Themes such as gender, sexuality, nation and class are thus present throughout these essays. Major writers such as Woolf are read alongside forgotten and marginalised voices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108751018
• Artikelnr.: 55008174

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill; Part I. After the War: 1.
Out of Mrs Colefax's Drawing-Room: poets and poetry between the wars Harry
Ricketts; 2. Perverting the postwar: sexuality and state violence in
women's literature Layne Parish Craig; 3. Journeys without maps: literature
and spiritual experience Lara Vetter; Part II. Literature after Human
Nature Changed: 4. Writing the vote: suffrage, gender, and politics Sowon
S. Park and Kathryn Laing; 5. Literature and human rights Rachel Potter; 6.
Psychoanalysis and modernism John Farrell; Part III. Immense Panoramas of
Futility and Anarchy: Writing and Politics: 7. History: the past in
transition Gabrielle McIntire; 8. Women's work? Domestic labour and
proletarian fiction Charles Ferrall; 9. Ordinary places, intermodern
genres: documentary, travel, and literature Kristin Bluemel; 10. Bloomsbury
conversations that didn't happen: Indian writing between British modernism
and anti-colonialism Snehal Shingavi and Charlotte Nunes; Part IV. The
First Break-Up of Britain: 11. Between Holyhead and Kingstown: Anglo-Irish
perspectives on the character of British fiction Michael G. Cronin; 12.
Cancer of empire: the Glasgow novel between the wars Liam McIlvanney; 13.
Lewis Jones and the making of Welsh Identity Shintaro Kono; 14. From Optik
to Haptik: Celticism, symbols and stones in the 1930s Peter Mackay; Part V.
Transitions High and Low: 15. On the home front: designs for living in
British drama between the wars Penny Farfan; 16. Middlemen, middlebrow,
broadbrow Nicola Wilson; 17. Detective fiction: resolutions without
solutions J. C. Bernthal; 18. British literature in transmission: writing
and wireless James Purdon.