A history of 1930s British literature /
"The 1930s are again en vogue. Over the past fifteen years political commentators have repeatedly invoked the decade as a resonant backdrop to current historical events ranging from the financial crash of 2008 and the surge of populist political movements to the apparent crisis of democratic in...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Long 1930s Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton; Part I. Mapping a New Decade: Geographies and Identities: 1. Beyond Englishness: The Regional and Rural Novel in the 1930s Kristin Bluemel; 2. Uncanny Cities: Urban Geographies and Metropolitan Life in the 1930s Emma Zimmerman; 3. The Making of the Working Class: Proletarian Writing in the 1930s Nick Hubble; 4. Professional Women Writers Kristin Ewins; 5. Queer Communist Formations: Coterie, Counterpublic, Cell Glyn Salton-Cox; Part II. Media Histories and the Institutions of Literature: 6. Circulating Literature: Libraries, Bookshops, and Book Clubs Andrew Thacker; 7. Literature and Education in the Long 1930s Matthew Taunton; 8. International PEN: Writers, Free Expression, Organisations Rachel Potter; 9. The New Reading Public: Modernism, Popular Literature, and the Paperbacks Vike Martina Plock; 10. Debatable Ground: Journalism, Pamphlets, and Social Critique Peter Marks; 11. 'Hypocrite Auditeur, Mon Semblable, Mon Frere': Literature and the Border of the Radio Public Ian Whittington; 12. Talking Films Laura Marcus; 13. Telemediations James Purdon; Part III. Commitment and Autonomy: 14. Ambiguity Run Riot: Film-Mindedness in the 1930s Avant Garde Rod Mengham; 15. 'A Vein of Insularity': British Music in the Long 1930s Louise Wiggins; 16. Representing Fascism in 1930s Literature Tyrus Miller; 17. The Documentary Impulse Leo Mellor; 18. Religion, Modernism and Anglo-Agnostics: (Un) belief and Fiction in the 1930s Suzanne Hobson; 19. The Colonial State and Transnational Welfare during the 1930s Depression Janice Ho; 20. Science Fiction, Left Science and the Politics of Planning ; Part IV. The Global 1930s: Conflict and Change: 21. Anglo-Soviet Literary Relations in the Long 1930s John Connor; 22. A Declining Empire in a Rising Power: British Writers in America Greg Barnhisel; 23. Late Modernism and the Spanish Civil War Patricia Rae; 24. Total War Marina MacKay; 25. Colonial Intellectuals and the Aesthetic Cold War Peter Kalliney; 26. Imperial Fictions: Writing the End of Empire Laura Winkiel.