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The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s

Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature

Editor: James Smith, University of Durham

James Smith, Janet Montefiore, Marina MacKay, Claire Warden, Peter Marks, Isobel Maddison, Tyrus Miller, John Connor, Judy Suh, Timothy Youngs, Kristin Bluemel, Glyn Salton-Cox, Phyllis Lassner, Mia Spiro, Benjamin Kohlmann

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Date Published: December 2019
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108703796

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The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political events, aesthetic debates, and emerging literary networks. Yet what is contained under the rubric of 1930s writing has been the subject of competing claims, and therefore this Companion offers the reader an incisive survey covering the decade's literature and its status in critical debates. Across the chapters, sustained attention is given to writers of growing scholarly interest, to pivotal authors of the period, such as Auden, Orwell, and Woolf, to the development of key literary forms and themes, and to the relationship between this literature and the decade's pressing social and political contexts. Through this, the reader will gain new insight into 1930s literary history, and an understanding of many of the critical debates that have marked the study of this unique literary era.
- Evaluates a full spectrum of 1930s British literature in light of current approaches to the field
- Covers specific literary forms as well as broader contexts and themes
- Gives sustained attention to major authors as well as many others who have come to more recent scholarly attention
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'Brilliantly conceived, constructed and executed, Smith's collection is an outstanding one.' Alistair Davies, Textual Practice

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- Date Published: December 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108703796
- length: 266 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction James Smith
1. Poetry Janet Montefiore
2. The literary novel Marina MacKay
3. Drama Claire Warden
4. Publishing and periodicals Peter Marks
5. The middlebrow and popular Isobel Maddison
6. Modernism Tyrus Miller
7. Communism and the working class John Connor
8. Empire Judy Suh
9. Travel Timothy Youngs
10. The regional and the rural Kristin Bluemel
11. The queer 1930s Glyn Salton-Cox
12. Remembering and imagining war Phyllis Lassner
13. Fascism and anti-fascism Mia Spiro
14. Fashioning the 1930s Benjamin Kohlmann.
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James Smith, University of Durham
James Smith is a Reader in English Studies at Durham University. His most recent book was British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930–1960 (Cambridge, 2013). He has published widely on other aspects of 1930s literature and culture, such as on the censorship of 1930s film societies, and on government surveillance of radical literary magazines during the decade.
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James Smith, Janet Montefiore, Marina MacKay, Claire Warden, Peter Marks, Isobel Maddison, Tyrus Miller, John Connor, Judy Suh, Timothy Youngs, Kristin Bluemel, Glyn Salton-Cox, Phyllis Lassner, Mia Spiro, Benjamin Kohlmann