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The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s
About this book
The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political events, aesthetic debates, and emerging literary networks. Yet what is contained under the rubric of 1930s writing has been the subject of competing claims, and therefore this Companion offers the reader an incisive survey covering the decade's literature and its status in critical debates. Across the chapters, sustained attention is given to writers of growing scholarly interest, to pivotal authors of the period, such as Auden, Orwell, and Woolf, to the development of key literary forms and themes, and to the relationship between this literature and the decade's pressing social and political contexts. Through this, the reader will gain new insight into 1930s literary history, and an understanding of many of the critical debates that have marked the study of this unique literary era.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Poetry
- Chapter 2 The Literary Novel
- Chapter 3 Drama
- Chapter 4 Publishing and Periodicals
- Chapter 5 The Middlebrow and Popular
- Chapter 6 Modernism
- Chapter 7 Communism and the Working Class
- Chapter 8 Empire
- Chapter 9 Travel
- Chapter 10 The Regional and the Rural
- Chapter 11 The Queer 1930s
- Chapter 12 Remembering and Imagining War
- Chapter 13 Fascism and Anti-Fascism
- Chapter 14 Fashioning the 1930s
- Index