A History of 1930s British Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of 1930s British Literature write by Benjamin Kohlmann. This book was released on 2019-05-16. A History of 1930s British Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
English Fiction in the 1930s
English Fiction in the 1930s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Fiction in the 1930s write by Chris Hopkins. This book was released on 2006-12-07. English Fiction in the 1930s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time. Chris Hopkins uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or explore the boundaries, contemporary usefulness and complexities of particular prose genres. Generic debates and the political-aesthetic effects of different kinds of representation were live issues as discursive struggles and negotiations took place between modernist and realist modes, between high, middle and lowbrow categorisations of culture, between literature and mass culture, and between different conceptions of the role of the writer, politics and nationality, sexuality and gender identities. Chris Hopkins draws both on well-known texts and on novels which have only recently begun to be discussed by critics of the thirties - particularly those by women writers whose work has still not been related very clearly to the literary and political debates of the period. Organised in five sections each focusing on major genres, he takes a wide range of novels as case studies and discusses their uses of generic forms, relating them to other examples and to their historical, political and cultural contexts.
I Capture the Castle
I Capture the Castle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Capture the Castle write by Dodie Smith. This book was released on 2003-04-01. I Capture the Castle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts! I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle"-- and the heart of the reader-- in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments. “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.” -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s write by William Solomon. This book was released on 2018-09-20. The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.
The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction
The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction write by Nick Hubble. This book was released on 2021-01-14. The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
