Intermodernism : Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain /

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635092);This collection of original critical essays challenges readers to accept a new term, new critical category, and new literary history for twentieth-century British literature. It takes as its primary subject the fascinating and typically neglecte...

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Autor principal: Bluemel, Kristin (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Cohen, Debra Rae (Contribuidor), Colletta, Lisa (Contribuidor), Fordham, John (Contribuidor), Hammill, Faye (Contribuidor), Hepburn, Allan (Contribuidor), Hubble, Nick (Contribuidor), Lassner, Phyllis (Contribuidor), Marcus, Laura (Contribuidor), Maslen, Elizabeth (Contribuidor), Montefiore, Janet (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Temas:
English literature > History and criticism > 20th century > Englisch.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: What is Intermodernism?
  • Part I: Work
  • 1 A Cassandra with Clout: Storm Jameson, Little Englander and Good European
  • 2 Englands Ancient and Modern: Sylvia Townsend Warner, T. H. White and the Fictions of Medieval Englishness
  • 3 'A Strange Field': Region and Class in the Novels of Harold Heslop
  • Part II: Comm
  • 4 Stella Gibbons, Ex-Centricity and the Suburb
  • 5 Intermodern Travel: J. B. Priestley's English and American Journeys
  • Part III: War
  • 6 Under Suspicion: The Plotting of Britain in World War II Detective Spy Fiction
  • 7 Trials and Errors: The Heat of the Day and Postwar Culpability
  • 8 Rebecca West's Palimpsestic Praxis: Crafting the Intermodern Voice of Witness
  • Part IV: Documents
  • 9 The Intermodern Assumption of the Future: William Empson, Charles Madge and Mass-Observation
  • 10 'The creative treatment of actuality': John Grierson, Documentary Cinema and 'Fact' in the 1930s
  • Appendix: Who are the Intermodernists?
  • Select Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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