The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2019

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Paperback. Reformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and modernism in BritainThis 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 were related to an intersectional web of class and gender that took on a potent political shape following the 1926 General Strike and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928. The 1930s is revealed not as an atypical, isolated decade but as central to the literature of the twentieth century.Key FeaturesRelates modernism to the intersubjective dimension of societySets out a new perspective on proletarian literature in Britain, releasing it from limiting conceptions of working class authenticity or Soviet-imposed socialist realismShows how modernism and proletarian literature were linked products of the (broadly) fin-de-siecle emergence of the unconscious that fractured nineteenth-century grand narrativesProvides an historical framework for rethinking the 1930s as not an atypical isolated decade but as central to the literature of the twentieth century This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title
The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (Paperback)
Author
Nick Hubble
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
Publication year
2019
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Paperback
Language
English
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