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The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism. This book takes a fresh approach to the decade by examining both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.
From the aftermath of First World War to the Great Depression of 1929, and its political consequences, the 1920s were a decade marked by radical social change. Internationally, there was an ongoing shift of global power and nationally, Britain was adjusting to the aftermath of First World War, to no longer being the dominant imperial power in the world, and to the introduction of universal male suffrage and votes for women over thirty, which was extended to those over twenty-one in 1928. This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to these contexts in order to reassess and explain trends of the period, such as war books, fantastic romance, literary modernism, and new expressions of gender and sexuality.
A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Agatha Christie, E. M. Forster, Ethel Mannin, Somerset Maugham, R. H. Mottram, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, A. A. Milne, Hope Mirrlees, Naomi Mitchison, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, among others; illustrating how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.
From the aftermath of First World War to the Great Depression of 1929, and its political consequences, the 1920s were a decade marked by radical social change. Internationally, there was an ongoing shift of global power and nationally, Britain was adjusting to the aftermath of First World War, to no longer being the dominant imperial power in the world, and to the introduction of universal male suffrage and votes for women over thirty, which was extended to those over twenty-one in 1928. This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to these contexts in order to reassess and explain trends of the period, such as war books, fantastic romance, literary modernism, and new expressions of gender and sexuality.
A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Agatha Christie, E. M. Forster, Ethel Mannin, Somerset Maugham, R. H. Mottram, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, A. A. Milne, Hope Mirrlees, Naomi Mitchison, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, among others; illustrating how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editors’ Preface
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Fairy Fruit and Creative Auto-Intoxication: The 1920s as a Decade of Fantastic Romance
- 2 The Way Things (Still) Are: Women, Visions and Realities in the 1920s
- 3 The Shapes of Time: Novelistic Form and Decadal Time in the 1920s British Novel
- 4 The First World War in the 1920s
- 5 Home and Away: The Fiction of the 1920s and the British Empire
- 6 Casting Shadows: Women, Absence, and History in the Gendered Narratives of Naomi Mitchison
- 7 Englishness, Modernism and Gender: The Hungarian Reception of Virginia
- 8 Platforming the Poor in 1920s Britain: Habermas, Foucault and the Politics of Display
- 9 Animals at the Hearth: A.A. Milne, E.H. Shepard and Illustrated Fantasies of Rural Living
- Timeline of Works
- Timeline of National Events
- Timeline of International Events
- Biographies of Writers
- Index
- Copyright