This History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The '30s have often been cast as a literary-historical anomaly, either as a 'low, dishonest decade', a doomed experiment in combining art and politics, or as a 'late modernist' afterthought to the intense period of artistic experimentation in the 1920s. By contrast, the contributors to this volume explore the contours of a 'long 1930s' by repositioning the decade and its characteristic concerns at the heart of twentieth-century literary history. This book expands the range of writers covered, moving beyond a narrow focus on towering canonical figures to draw in a more diverse cast of characters, in terms of race, gender, class, and forms of artistic expression. The book's four sections emphasize the decade's characteristic geographical and sexual identities; the new media landscapes and institutional settings its writers operated in; questions of commitment and autonomy; and British writing's international entanglements. INDICE: 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 frère': 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. The scientific imagination and the politics of objectivity Boris Jardine; 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.
- ISBN: 978-1-108-47453-5
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 474
- Fecha Publicación: 16/05/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés