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The politics of 1930s British literature : education, class, gender / Natasha Periyan.
Van Pelt Library PR478.P64 P47 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Periyan, Natasha, author.
- Series:
- Historicizing modernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Intellectual life.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- History.
- Education in literature.
- Social classes in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 278 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- W.H. Auden: pedagogy and freedom of choice in the 1930s
- Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain and the politics of pedagogy in South Riding, Honourable estate and Testament of youth
- Writers of the old school: Graham Greene, Walter Greenwood, Stephen Spender, Antonia White and Arthur Calder-Marshall
- "Altering the structure of society": Virginia Woolf's class-critique of educational institutions in the 1930s
- "Making him our master": the Eton writers George Orwell, Cyril Connolly and Henry Green
- Coda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781350019843
- 1350019844
- OCLC:
- 1019584355
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