British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940: Futility and Anarchy

by Dougal McNeill

Literature from the 'political' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the 'aesthetic' 1920s. This collection suggests a different approach. Drawing on recent work expanding our sense of the political and aesthetic energies of interwar modernisms, these chapters track transitions in British literature. The strains of national break-up, class dissension and political instability provoked a new literary order, and reading across the two decades between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107145538
• ISBN13: 9781107145535
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"