Nov 22, 2008

British Writers of the Thirties | British Writers of the Thirties

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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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British Writers of the Thirties | British Writers of the Thirties

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