The Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics, and Culture

by John Charles Lucas

Book Overview

This book brings together writers from the 1920's who have never before been collectively studied in regard to their political radicalism. Drawing on the works of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Wolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Ivor Gurney, Patrick Hamilton, and others, John Lucas identifies the decade as a time of both political activism and of deliberately transgressive behavior, particularly among women. The book meets head-on the argument of earlier commentators...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813526825
• ISBN13: 9780813526829
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"