The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

by Nick Hubble (Editor), Luke Seaber (Editor), Elinor Taylor (Editor)

Overview

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generation', this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and cultural democratization that characterized the decade.

A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine Burdekin, Agatha Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350079168
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/14/2021
Series:	The Decades Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Nick Hubble is Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), The 1970s (2014), The 1990s (2015), The 2000s (2015) and London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016) all published by Bloomsbury.

Luke Seaber is Tutor in Modern European Culture at University College London, UK. He is the author of Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation (2017).

Elinor Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940 (2018).
Nick Hubble is Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), The 1970s (2014), The 1990s (2015), The 2000s (2015) and London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016) all published by Bloomsbury.


Luke Seaber is Tutor in Modern European Culture at University College London, UK. He is the author of Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation (2017).


Elinor Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940 (2018).

Table of Contents

Contributors

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The 1930s in the Twenty-First Century

Nick Hubble, Burnel University, UK, Luke Seaber, University College London, UK and Elinor Taylor, University of Westminster, UK

1. 'You're not in the market at Shielding, Joe': Beyond the Myth of the 'Thirties'
Nick Hubble

2. Spectres of English Fascism: History, Aesthetics and Cultural Critique
Elinor Taylor

3 Naomi Mitchison and the Class and Gender Politics of Eugenics
Natasha Periyan, University of Kent, UK

4. British Culture and Identity in 1930s Anglophone Literature from Australia, Canada and India
Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay, University of Regina, Canada

5. Timely Interventions and Disruptive Temporalities: Queer Writing of the 1930s
Glyn Salton-Cox, University of California Santa Barabara, USA

6. Private Faces in Public Places: Auto-Intertextuality, Authority and 1930s Fiction
Luke Seaber

7. 'How To Acquire Culture' by The Man Who Sees: The Middlebrow, Liberal Humanism, and Morally Superior Lower-Middle-Class Citizenship in Woman's Weekly, 1938-1939
Ellie Reed, University of Roehampton, UK

8. 'It's a narsty biziness': Conservatism and Subversion in 1930s Detective Fiction and Thrillers
Glyn White, University of Salford, UK

Timeline of Works
Timeline of National Events
Timeline of International Events
Biographies of Writers
Index