The popular front novel in Britain, 1934-1940 / by Elinor Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Elinor, author.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 153.

Historical Materialism Book, 1570-1522 ; Volume 153

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

British literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

In The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940 , Elinor Taylor provides the first study of the relationship between the British novel and the anti-fascist Popular Front strategy endorsed by the Comintern in 1935. Through readings of novels by British Communists including Jack Lindsay, John Sommerfield, Lewis Jones and James Barke, Taylor shows that the realist novel of the left was a key site in which the politics of anti-fascist alliance were rehearsed. Maintaining a dialogue with theories of populism and with Georg Lukács’s vision of a revived literary realism ensuing from the Popular Front, this book at once illuminates the cultural formation of the Popular Front in Britain and proposes a new framework for reading British fiction of this period.

Contents:

Front Matter

Introduction

Anti-Fascist Aesthetics in International Context

John Sommerfield, May Day (1936)

Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky (1937)

History and the Historical Novel

James Barke and the National Turn

Lewis Jones’s Fiction

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 31, 2018).

ISBN:

90-04-35635-5

OCLC:

1010747288

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004356351 DOI