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Edward Upward and left-wing literary culture in Britain /

The first book-length consideration of one of the major British left-wing writers of the twentieth century, this collection positions the life and works of Edward Upward (1903-2009) in the changing artistic, political and social contexts of the last century. The contributors examine the full range o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kohlmann, Benjamin, 1981-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on the Text; Edward Upward
  • A Chronology; Writing of the Struggle: An Introduction to Edward Upward's Life and Works; 1 Playing Up: Edward Upward in Cambridge and Beyond; 2 In the Thirties: Upward, Literature and Politics; 3 Modalities of Thirties Writing and Writers: The Case of Edward Upward; 4 'Only degradation and slavery?': The Figure of the Teacher in the Writing of Edward Upward; 5 Radical Eccentricity and Post-war Ordinariness.
  • 6 'History will not always be living here': Edward Upward's Comic Historiographies7 The Post-war Künstlerroman: Edward Upward and Henry Williamson Taking Themselves Seriously; 8 Upward's Later Stories, Modernist Intimacy and the Marxist Unmentionable; 9 Edward Upward and the Critique of Everyday Late Life; 10 'Walkers, not marchers': The Scope of Walking in Upward's Late Fiction; 11 Edward Upward's Remains; Bibliography; Index.