British Literature in TransitionPevná vazba
British Literature in TransitionPevná vazba Literature from the 'political' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the 'aesthetic' 1920s. Drawing on recent work expanding our sense of the political…
Specifikacia British Literature in TransitionPevná vazba
British Literature in TransitionPevná vazba
Literature from the 'political' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the 'aesthetic' 1920s. Drawing on recent work expanding our sense of the political and aesthetic energies of interwar modernisms, these chapters track transitions in British literature. This collection suggests a different approach.
Instead of following familiar markers - 1922, the Crash, the Spanish Civil War - or isolating particular themes from literary study, this collection takes key problems and dilemmas from literature 'in transition' and reads them across familiar and unfamiliar cultural works and productions, in their rich and contradictory context of publication. The strains of national break-up, class dissension and political instability provoked a new literary order, and reading across the two decades between the wars exposes the continuing pressure of these transitions. Themes such as gender,
Literature in ContextPevná vazba
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