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English Literature of the 1920s
David Ayers
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paperback. This book argues that the English Literature of the period can be better understood when it is examined in the context of a more local social and literary history. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
The English literature of the 1920s is commonly treated in terms of its position within European or Anglo-American Modernism. This book argues that the English Literature of the period can be better understood when it is examined in the context of a more local social and literary history. Focusing principally on the novel, it sets modernist works alongside non-modernist and popular forms, looking at the engagement of these texts with social concerns, including sexuality, gender and class politics, Englishness, empire and the cultural pessimism which informed the formation of English as a modern University subject. The book includes studies of ... Read more
The English literature of the 1920s is commonly treated in terms of its position within European or Anglo-American Modernism. This book argues that the English Literature of the period can be better understood when it is examined in the context of a more local social and literary history. Focusing principally on the novel, it sets modernist works alongside non-modernist and popular forms, looking at the engagement of these texts with social concerns, including sexuality, gender and class politics, Englishness, empire and the cultural pessimism which informed the formation of English as a modern University subject. The book includes studies of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748620258
SKU
V9780748620258
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About David Ayers
David Ayers is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Kent and the author of Wyndam Lewis and Western Man and Modernism: A Short Introduction.
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