The British novel since the thirties : an introduction
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The British novel since the thirties : an introduction
B.T. Batsford, 1986
- pbk.
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
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  Shizuoka
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliography and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a survey of the British novel from the 1930s to the present day. The book includes commentary on all the major novelists of the period and also on a number of lesser known writers. The examination of individual writers is, however, subordinate to the main purpose of the book which is to provide a coherent account of the nature and development of British fiction over the last 50 years. Two main influences are shown at work here: the strength of conventions continuing from the Victorian era and the impulse given towards innovation and experiment by modernist authors in the early decades of the twentieth century, culminating in the work of such writers as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. Continuing reference to these influences and to the contemporary political, social and cultural background establishes a framework for the assessment of individual novelists, placing each within a pattern of overall development. Concluding sections dealing with current experimental fiction, and with other directions recently followed by the novel, further define the situation of the novelist as it has developed up to the present day.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The novel 1900-1930. Part 2 In the Thirties: between the acts - politics and literature in the 1930s
- new realism and the "mild Left"
- fantasy, Marxism and class
- satire and the Right Wing
- politics and beyond. Part 3 War and post-war 1940-1956: the wartime scene
- no directions
- innocence and experience
- good and evil
- dream worlds
- self-condemned
- conclusion - the death of the heart. Part 4 Recent and contemporary - the novel since the 1950s: "The angry decade"
- beyond fifties realism
- chronicles
- lost empire
- new women
- the ineluctable shadow
- old conflicts and new syntheses
- contemporary Gothic
- conclusion. Part 5 Modernism and post-modernism - the experimental novel since 1930: the autonomy of language
- literary reflections
- the game of mirrors
- the French connection
- free narrative
- Postscript - "English" fiction in the 20th century.
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