The proletarian answer to the modernist question

by Hubble, Nick

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Title Statements

Full title :The proletarian answer to the modernist question / Nick Hubble.

Summary

Reformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and modernism in Britain, The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question argued that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Critical analysis and close readings of key works are placed within a literary history stretching from early encounters between Ford Madox Ford and D. H. Lawrence, through Virginia Woolf's association with the Women's Co-operative Guild, and on to the activity of Mass Observation in the late 1930s and 1940s. The book analyses the way in which modernism and proletarian literature were related to an intersectional web of class and gender that took on a potent political shape following the 1926 General Strike and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928. The 1930s is revealed not as an atypical, isolated decade but as central to the literature of the twentieth century. Book jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:218 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781474415828, 1474415822
oclc:ocn973378758
LC Classification:PR471
Dewey Decimal:820.900912

Subjects

18.05 English literature Arbeiterliteratur Criticism, interpretation, etc Écrits d'ouvriers anglais -- Histoire e… Englisch English Literature English literature -- History and criti… Grossbritannien Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri… Moderne Modernism (Literature) Modernisme (Littérature) Working class writings, English Working class writings, English -- Hist…