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Intermodernism : literary culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain /

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 neglected writing of the years of the Depression and World War...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bluemel, Kristin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A Cassandra with clout: Storm Jameson, little Englander and good European / Elizabeth Maslen
  • Englands ancient and modern: Sylvia Townsend Warner, T.H. White and the fictions of medieval Englishness / Janet Montefiore
  • 'A strange field': region and class in the novels of Harold Heslop / John Fordham
  • Stella Gibbons, ex-centricity and the suburb / Faye Hammill
  • Intermodern travel: J.B. Priestley's English and American journeys / Lisa Colletta
  • Under suspicion: the plotting of Britain in World War II detective spy fiction / Phyllis Lassner
  • Trials and errors: The Heat of the Day and postwar culpability / Allan Hepburn
  • Rebecca West's palimpsestic praxis: crafting the intermodern voice of witness / Debra Rae Cohen
  • THe intermodern assumption of the future: William Empson, Charles Madge and mass-observation / Nick Hubble
  • 'The creative treatment of actuality': John Grierson, documentary cinema and 'fact' in the 1930s / Laura Marcus.