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The 1930s : A Decade of Modern British Fiction

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With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generation', this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and cultural democratization that characterized the decade.

A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine Burdekin, Agatha Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781350619913
  • ISBN-10: 1350619914
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publish Date: February 2026
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.67 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.98 pounds
  • Page Count: 320

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