The proletarian answer to the modernist question / Nick Hubble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hubble, Nick, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

218 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

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.

Contents:

1 'Her Heritage Was that Tragic Optimism': Edwardian Pastoral 56

2 'The Common Life': Women and Men after the General Strike 87

3 'She Had Finished with Men Forever': Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Grey Granite 112

4 'The Raw Material of History': John Sommerfield's May Day 141

5 'None of That "My Good Woman" Stuff: Outsider Observations 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-212) and index.

ISBN:

9781474415828

1474415822

OCLC:

973378758