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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hopkins, Chris, 1960- English fiction in the 1930s. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2006 (OCoLC)607745767 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Chris Hopkins |
ISBN: | 9780826489388 0826489389 |
OCLC Number: | 71164620 |
Description: | viii, 176 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. Modernism and Modernity -- 1. Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson and Phyllis Bentlye: Three Women Writers and the Crisis of Modernity -- 2. Realism, Modernism and Genered Identity in Elizabeth Bowne's To the North and The Death of the Heart -- pt. 2. Documentary and Proletarian Pastoral -- 3. Dialect and Dialectic: Region and Nation in Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole -- 4. Modernizing Pastorals? Ralph Bate's The Olive Field and 1930s Leftist Pastoral -- 5. Depressed Pastorals? Documenting Wales in the 1930s -- pt. 3. History and the Historical Novel -- 6. Vienna, Vienna, Berlin: Naomi Mitchison's Vienna Diary, John Lehmann's Evil was Abroad, Christopher Isserwood's Goodbye to Berliln -- 7. Robert Graves and the Historical Novel in the 1930s -- 8. 'I Can't be Interested in the Past': Historicizing Sylvia Townsend Warner's After the Death of Don Juan -- pt. 4. Thrillers and Dystopias -- 9. Leftists and Thrillers: the Politics of the 1930s Sub-Genre -- 10. Flight, Gender, Dystopia: Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night; Storm Jameson's In the Second Year, Rex Warner's The Aerodrome. |
Series Title: | Continuum literary studies. |
Responsibility: | Chris Hopkins. |
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"English Fiction in the 1930s not only provides new readings of texts that have been relatively or entirely ignored by critics, but suggests a series of productive and sometimes unexpected dialogues between texts. . . Hopkins's style throughout is lucid and whilst this study contributes to scholarship on the literature of the 1930s it does not presume an exhaustive specialist knowledge. . . The chapters [are all] perceptive, well-argued and suggestive. Hopkins's use of particular texts to explore the politics of genre opens the way for further research and an increasingly sophisticated understanding of 1930s literature. He is not the first to propose a more complex, diverse image of writing during the decade, but he offers a new perspective and a series of instructive new readings. English Fiction in the 1930s is consequently a valuable addition to a growing body of critical work that looks beyond the 'Auden generation." - Review of English Studies Read more...

