Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Twentieth-Century British Fiction
Judy Suh
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hardcover. Suh makes a strong case that much of the middlebrow British fiction, despite its reputation for nonpolitical content, theorized the rise and fall of fascism from the 1930s to 1960s. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
This book investigates the impact of fascism on twentieth-century British fiction. With a solid archival underpinning, Suh locates anti-fascist counter-strategies in middlebrow genres associated with women writers (domestic fiction, melodrama, country house novels, and family sagas) and makes the powerful argument that these rhetorical and narrative strategies emerge as the most durable. Presenting works by Phyllis Bottome, Nancy Mitford, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, and Muriel Spark, the book shifts the focus from high modernism and its heirs, widely considered the most important sites of literary conceptions of the political, to the under explored feminist anti-fascist strategies inherent to middlebrow fiction. ... Read more
This book investigates the impact of fascism on twentieth-century British fiction. With a solid archival underpinning, Suh locates anti-fascist counter-strategies in middlebrow genres associated with women writers (domestic fiction, melodrama, country house novels, and family sagas) and makes the powerful argument that these rhetorical and narrative strategies emerge as the most durable. Presenting works by Phyllis Bottome, Nancy Mitford, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, and Muriel Spark, the book shifts the focus from high modernism and its heirs, widely considered the most important sites of literary conceptions of the political, to the under explored feminist anti-fascist strategies inherent to middlebrow fiction. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230613683
SKU
V9780230613683
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99-15
About Judy Suh
JUSY SUH is Assistant Professor of English at Duquesne University, USA.
Reviews for Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Twentieth-Century British Fiction
"Suh's innovative study addresses compelling questions about the relationships between literature and politics, fascism and anti-fascism, gender and class. It gives much-needed attention to the stealthy political strategies of middlebrow novels, and their capacity to engage with fascist ideologies through representations of domesticity and consumerism. Canonical authors such as Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis appear in a new light when ... Read more