Writing the 1926 General Strike : literature, culture, politics / Charles Ferrall, Victoria University of Wellington ; Dougal McNeill, Victoria University of Wellington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferrall, Charles, author.

McNeill, Dougal, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

General Strike, Great Britain, 1926, in literature.

General Strike (Great Britain : 1926) in literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain.

Politics and literature.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill's book analyses the vast literary response to the 1926 General Strike. The Strike not only drew writers into political action but inspired literature that served to shape twentieth-century British views of class, culture and politics. While major figures active at the time wrote on or responded to this crucial moment, this is the first volume to address their respective works. Ferrall and McNeill show how novels then in progress, such as Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, were affected by the Strike, as well as the ways in which it has been remembered from the 1930s to the present. Their study sheds new light on the relationship between politics and literature of the modernist era"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. St George and the beast: conservative responses to the Strike; 2. The aesthetic fix: Wells, Chesterton, Bennett; 3. In the middle way: Bloomsbury and the General Strike; 4. Lady Chatterley and the end of the world; 5. Poshcrats and the orphan class: the Auden circle in the General Strike; 6. The General Strike and Scottish modernism; 7. The education of desire: labour college radicals, the General Strike and the impossible bildungsroman; 8. Remembering 1926: working-class Welsh modernisms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107100039

1107100038

OCLC:

894670692