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  title info:
    title: British literature in transition, 1920-1940
    sub title: futility and anarchy
  name:
    name part: Ferrall, Charles
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: McNeill, Dougal
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 368 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 marginalized voices.
  table of contents: Introduction / Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill -- Part 1: After the War. Introduction to Part I -- Out of Mrs Colefax's drawing-room: poets and poetry between the Wars / Harry Ricketts -- Perverting the postwar: sexuality and state violence in women's literature / Layne Parish Craig -- Journeys without maps: literature and spiritual experience / Lara Vetter -- Part II: Literature after human nature changed. Introduction to Part II -- Writing the vote: suffrage, gender, and politics / Sowon S. Park and Kathryn Laing -- Literature and human rights / Rachel Potter -- Psychoanalysis and modernism / John Farrell -- Part III: Immense panoramas of futility and anarchy: writing and politics. Introduction to Part III -- History: the past in transition / Gabrielle McIntire -- Women's work?: domestic labour and proletarian fiction / Charles Ferrall -- Ordinary places, intermodern genres: documentary travel, and literature / Kristin Bluemel -- 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. Introduction to Part IV -- Between Holyhead and Kingstown: Anglo-Irish perspectives on the character of British fiction / Michael G Cronin -- Cancer of Empire: the Glasgow novel between the Wars / Liam McIlvanney -- Lewis Jones and the making of Welsh identity / Shintaro Kono -- 'From Optik to Haptik': Celticism, symbols and stones in the 1930s / Peter Mackay -- Part V: Transitions high and low. Introduction to Part V. On the home front: designs for living in British drama between the Wars / Penny Farfan -- Middlemen, middlebrow, broadbrow / Nicola Wilson -- Detective fiction: resolutions without solutions J. C. Bernthal -- British literature in transmission: writing and wireless / James Purdon.
  note: edited by Charles Ferrall, Dougal McNeill.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: PR478.S57 B77 2018
  classification: 820.9/00912
  related item:
    title info:
      title: British literature in transition series
  identifier: 9781107145535
  identifier: 1107145538
  identifier: 2018026092
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180612
    record change date: 20190718162215.0
    record identifier: in00004057194