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The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University, London, UK)

The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction By Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University, London, UK)

The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction by Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University, London, UK)

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The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction by Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University, London, UK)

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.

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An indispensable book for students and scholars of 1930s literary culture * English Studies *
Too long caricatured as an anomalous 'Red Decade', the real importance of the 1930s as a node of twentieth-century literary and cultural production can no longer be in doubt. The insightful contributions to this volume turn to works that have tended to fall by the wayside of literary historiography. In reclaiming a rich body of middlebrow, queer, working-class, and feminist writings, this superb collection explains how and why the 30s should matter to us. -- Benjamin Kohlmann, Professor of English Literature, University of Regensburg, Germany
This bold addition to the Bloomsbury Decades Series transforms the weary Thirties into an intriguing new literary period. It presents cutting-edge research on queer, proletarian, anti-racist, and feminist writings that encompass bourgeois modernism while speaking directly to twenty-first century dreams of a liberated future. -- Kristin Bluemel, Professor of English, Monmouth University, USA

About Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University, London, UK)

Nick Hubble is Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), The 1970s (2014), The 1990s (2015), The 2000s (2015) and London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016) all published by Bloomsbury. Luke Seaber is Tutor in Modern European Culture at University College London, UK. He is the author of Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation (2017). Elinor Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940 (2018).

Table of Contents

Contributors Series Editors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The 1930s in the Twenty-First Century Nick Hubble, Burnel University, UK, Luke Seaber, University College London, UK and Elinor Taylor, University of Westminster, UK 1. Youre not in the market at Shielding, Joe: Beyond the Myth of the Thirties Nick Hubble 2. Spectres of English Fascism: History, Aesthetics and Cultural Critique Elinor Taylor 3 Naomi Mitchison and the Class and Gender Politics of Eugenics Natasha Periyan, University of Kent, UK 4. British Culture and Identity in 1930s Anglophone Literature from Australia, Canada and India Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay, University of Regina, Canada 5. Timely Interventions and Disruptive Temporalities: Queer Writing of the 1930s Glyn Salton-Cox, University of California Santa Barabara, USA 6. Private Faces in Public Places: Auto-Intertextuality, Authority and 1930s Fiction Luke Seaber 7. How To Acquire Culture by The Man Who Sees: The Middlebrow, Liberal Humanism, and Morally Superior Lower-Middle-Class Citizenship in Womans Weekly, 1938-1939 Ellie Reed, University of Roehampton, UK 8. Its a narsty biziness: Conservatism and Subversion in 1930s Detective Fiction and Thrillers Glyn White, University of Salford, UK Timeline of Works Timeline of National Events Timeline of International Events Biographies of Writers Index

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NPB9781350079144
9781350079144
1350079146
The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction by Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University, London, UK)
Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University, London, UK)
The Decades Series
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2021-01-14
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