The 1930s A Decade Of Modern British Fiction

Author : Nick Hubble,Luke Seaber,Elinor Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350079151

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The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction by Nick Hubble,Luke Seaber,Elinor Taylor Pdf

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generation', this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and cultural democratization that characterized the decade. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine Burdekin, Agatha Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.

Author : Philip Tew,Glyn White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350143029

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The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction by Philip Tew,Glyn White Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded drastic and decisive changes to old certainties. Moving from potential invasion and defeat to victory, the creation of the welfare state and a new Cold war threat, the pace of historical change seemed too rapid and monumental for writers to match. Consequently the 1940s were often side-lined in literary accounts as a dividing line between periods and styles. Drawing on more recent scholarship and research, this volume surveys and analyses this period's fascinating diversity, from novels of the Blitz and the Navy to the rise of important new voices with its contributors exploring the work of influential women, Commonwealth, exiled, genre, avant-garde and queer writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the intriguing decade, this book offers substantial chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell as well as covering such writers as Jocelyn Brooke, Monica Dickens, James Hadley Chase, Patrick Hamilton, Gerald Kersh, Daphne Du Maurier, Mary Renault, Denton Welch and many others.

Author : James Gindin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349221714

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British Fiction in the 1930s by James Gindin Pdf

British Fiction in the 1930s studies the literary climate of the British 1930s through a critical treatment of some of its influential and socially representative fiction. The works depict, in various ways, a culture under the stress of seemingly insoluble economic and intensifying international dilemmas, a culture that seems betrayed by the promise of its past and the paralysis of its present. The fiction considers transforming solutions, individual and sexual rebellions as well as the fears and attractions of social and political change.

Author : Philip Tew,James Riley,Melanie Seddon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350011700

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The 1960s by Philip Tew,James Riley,Melanie Seddon Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the “swinging decade”: a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary experimental and science fiction writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, this volume covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.

Author : Nick Bentley,Alice Ferrebe,Nick Hubble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350011526

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The 1950s by Nick Bentley,Alice Ferrebe,Nick Hubble Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the 'Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.

Author : James Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108481083

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The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s by James Smith Pdf

Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.

Author : Emily Horton,Nick Bentley,Nick Hubble,Philip Tew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350268227

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The 2010s by Emily Horton,Nick Bentley,Nick Hubble,Philip Tew Pdf

This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of attention and reading. From the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, the 2010s have been a decade of an ongoing crisis which has penetrated every area of everyday life. Internationally, there has been an ongoing shift of global power from the US to China, and events and developments such as the election of Donald Trump as US President, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the rise of the populist right across Europe and very gradually the incipient effects variously of AI. Nationally, there has been a decade of austerity economics punctuated by divisive referendums on Scottish independence and whether Britain should leave or remain in the EU. Balancing critical surveys with in-depth readings of work by authors who have helped define this turbulent decade, including Nicola Barker, Anna Burns, Jonathan Coe, Alys Conran, Bernadine Evaristo, Mohsin Hamid, James Kelman, James Robertson, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell, among others, this volume illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.

Author : Benjamin Kohlmann,Matthew Taunton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108474535

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A History of 1930s British Literature by Benjamin Kohlmann,Matthew Taunton Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Tew,James Riley,Melanie Seddon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350011694

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The 1960s by Philip Tew,James Riley,Melanie Seddon Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the "swinging decade†?: a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary experimental and science fiction writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, this volume covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.

Author : Nick Hubble,John McLeod,Philip Tew
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623563851

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The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Hubble,John McLeod,Philip Tew Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contemporary. Chapters outline the decade's diversity of writing, showing how the literature of Ian McEwan and Ian Sinclair interacted with the experimental work of B.S. Johnson. Close contextual readings of Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and English novels map the steady break-up of Britain. Tying the popularity of Angela Carter and Fay Weldon to the growth of the Women's Liberation Movement and calling attention to a new interest in documentary modes of autobiographical writing, this volume also examines the rising resonance of the marginal voices: the world of 1970s British Feminist fiction and postcolonial and diasporic writers. Against a backdrop of social tensions, this major critical reassessment of the 1970s defines, explores and better understands the criticism and fiction of a decade marked by the sense of endings.

Author : Simon Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000582796

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Locating Classed Subjectivities by Simon Lee Pdf

Locating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social class in British fiction through the lens of spatial theory and analysis. By analyzing a range of class-conscious texts from the nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first centuries, the collection provides an overview of the way British writers mobilized spatial aesthetics as a means to comment on the intricacies of social class. In doing so, the collection delineates aesthetic strategies of representation in British writing, tracing the development of literary forms while considering how authors mobilized innovative spatial metaphors to better express contingent social and economic realities. Ranging in coverage from early-nineteenth-century narratives of disease to contemporary writing on the working-class millennial, Locating Classed Subjectivities offers new perspectives on literary techniques and political intentions, exploring the way class is parsed and critiqued through British writing across three centuries. As such, the project responds to Nigel Thrift and Peter Williams’s claim that literary and cultural production serves as a particularly rich yet unexamined access point by which to comprehend the way space and social class intersect.

Author : Anna Cottrell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781474425674

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London Writing of the 1930s by Anna Cottrell Pdf

Analyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensity

Author : James Gindin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349221732

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British Fiction in the 1930s by James Gindin Pdf

Author : Alice Ferrebe,Nick Bentley,Nick Hubble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : British literature
ISBN : 1350011541

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The 1950s by Alice Ferrebe,Nick Bentley,Nick Hubble Pdf

"How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the 'Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E.R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V.S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J.R.R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Author : Nick Bentley,Alice Ferrebe,Nick Hubble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350011533

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The 1950s by Nick Bentley,Alice Ferrebe,Nick Hubble Pdf

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the 'Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.