The proletarian answer to the modernist question /
Reformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and modernism in Britain, The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question argued that British proletarian literature was a politicized form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Critical analysis and clos...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017].
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| Summary: | Reformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and modernism in Britain, The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question argued that British proletarian literature was a politicized form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Critical analysis and close readings of key works are placed within a literary history stretching from early encounters between Ford Madox Ford and D. H. Lawrence, through Virginia Woolf's association with the Women's Cooperative Guild, and on to the activity of Mass Observation in the late 1930s and 1940s. The book analyzes the way in which modernism and proletarian literature were related to an intersectional web of class and gender that took on a potent political shape following the 1926 General Strike and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928. The 1930s is revealed not as an atypical, isolated decade but as central to the literature of the twentieth century. |
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| Physical Description: | 218 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474415828 1474415822 |