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English literature of the 1920s /
Focusing principally on the novel, this book treats works that are regarded as modernist alongside non-modernist and popular forms. These texts are examined within the context of social concerns, including gender, class politics, and the empire.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Men and Masculinity: The Response to Social Change. The Feminist Toryism of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End. The Proto-Fascism of Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero. Men Alone and Men Together: The Masculinist Project of D.H. Lawrence. New Family Values and Anti-Oedipal Fantasy in Warwick Deeping's Sorrell and Son
- 2. Ideals and Realities of the English Woman. The Fairy-tale of War: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier. The Magic of Independence: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes. A Question of Life and Death: Aesthetics and History in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
- 3. Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture. Reaction and Revolution in The Calendar of Modern Letters, The Criterion and The Adelphi. Hunting the Highbrow: Q.D. Leavis and the Disintegration of the Reading Public. Bloomsbury and the Miners: Ellen Wilkinson's Clash. The New World Order: D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo
- 4. Sex, Satire and the Jazz Age. Lesbian Sexology: Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness. Inverted World: Wyndham Lewis and The Apes of God. Enigmatic Femininity and English Myth: Michael Arlen's The Green Hat. Sexual Cynicism and Intellectual Despair: Aldous Huxley. Realising Sex: The Utopian Alternative to the Jazz Age in Lady Chatterley's Lover
- 5. England and its Other: Seduction and Friendship, Bodies and Ghosts. Seduced by Difference: The Sheik and Desert Love. Beyond the Reach of Empire: D.H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent. The Politics of Friendship in A Passage to India.