British Writers of the Thirties

by Valentine Cunningham

Book Overview

This wide-ranging study of British writers and poets of the 1930s--including Auden, Isherwood, Spender, Waugh, and Greene-- examines the masterpieces of that momentous decade, not in linguistic isolation, but in the contexts--social, political, historical, ideological, and personal--in which they were composed. Cunningham maps out the dominant images and concerns, nothing less than the central obsessions and imposing images of the '30s imagination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192826557
• ISBN13: 9780192826558
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"