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The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question
Nick Hubble
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Hardback. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Critical analysis and close readings of key works such as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naomi Mitchison's We have Been Warned, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair and John Sommerfield's May Day, 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 study analyses the way in which modernism and proletarian literature ... Read more
This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Critical analysis and close readings of key works such as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naomi Mitchison's We have Been Warned, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair and John Sommerfield's May Day, 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 study analyses the way in which modernism and proletarian literature ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474415828
SKU
V9781474415828
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About Nick Hubble
Nick Hubble is Reader in English at Brunel University London.
Reviews for The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question
The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question is an important contribution to the necessary work of integrating it in literary history, a process that has the potential to alter the existing order in broad as well as narrow ways.
Ben Clarke, Oxford University Press Journals
Ben Clarke, Oxford University Press Journals