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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2019
Print publication year:
2019
Online ISBN:
9781108646345
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108646345
Collection:
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature after 1945, English Literature 1900-1945
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Book description

The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political events, aesthetic debates, and emerging literary networks. Yet what is contained under the rubric of 1930s writing has been the subject of competing claims, and therefore this Companion offers the reader an incisive survey covering the decade's literature and its status in critical debates. Across the chapters, sustained attention is given to writers of growing scholarly interest, to pivotal authors of the period, such as Auden, Orwell, and Woolf, to the development of key literary forms and themes, and to the relationship between this literature and the decade's pressing social and political contexts. Through this, the reader will gain new insight into 1930s literary history, and an understanding of many of the critical debates that have marked the study of this unique literary era.

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‘Brilliantly conceived, constructed and executed, Smith's collection is an outstanding one.’

Alistair Davies Source: Textual Practice

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