British Writers of the Thirties (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Valentine Cunningham
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Literary history
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: Great Britain
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History, Arts
- Subjects: Politics, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Middle classes, Class consciousness, 1930’s, Poverty or poor people, England or English people, Upper classes, Literary criticism
- Locales: Great Britain
The 1930's in Great Britain were a time of strained seriousness and sophomoric frivolity, of Marxism and fascism, of fads and traditionalism. In British Writers of the Thirties, Valentine Cunningham looks at the decade's social and political issues as seen in the lives and works of its major and minor poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, and critics. Cunningham, a fellow and tutor in English literature at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, is an expert in political literature, having written Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel (1975)...
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