British Novelists, 1930-1959

by Bernard Oldsey

Overview

Writing during one of the most volatile periods in British history — a time that encompassed a worldwide economic depression, World War II, and the economic and political decline of the British Empire — the novelists featured in this volume produced some of the most memorable fiction in the history of British literature. Novelists of the period 1930-1959 held true to the path established by such writers as Austen, Dickens, Lawrence and Conrad. They displayed the particularly British characteristics of a lack of innovation, a distaste for literary abstraction, a constant interest in the interaction of individuals within their society, and a sense of historical continuity.

59 entries include: Kingsley Amis, Samuel Beckett, William Golding, Graham Greene, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Anthony Powell, V.S. Pritchett, Muriel Spark, J.R.R.Tolkien and Evelyn Waugh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810309388
Publisher:	Gale Group
Publication date:	03/28/1983
Series:	Dictionary of Literary Biography Series , #15
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	9.06(w) x 11.42(h) x (d)