Writers of the old school : British novelists of the 1930s
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Writers of the old school : British novelists of the 1930s
Macmillan, 1992
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  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This charts the emergence of British writers who assimilated the experimentation of the modernists in a realist tradition, also crafting their own distinctive literary voice. The essays in this volume cover a broad range of authors including George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh.
Table of Contents
- Orwell's fictions of the thirties, Peter Firchow
- an aesthete in the foundry - Henry Green's "Living", Mary R Davidson
- Anthony Powell's archetypal characters, Rosemary M. Colt
- Evelyn Waugh's modernity, Alain Blayac
- modernist in search of an audience - Graham Greene in the thirties, Barry Menikoff
- running away from home - perpetual transit in Elizabeth Bowen's novels, Janice Rossen
- in another country - Sylvia Townsend Warner at large, J. Lawrence Michell
- the torment of loving - inter-war novels of Rosamond Lehmann, Judy Simons
- the politics of exile - Christopher Isherwood, Kay Ferres
- Christopher Isherwood - autobiography as mask, Bernard Benstock
- brief biographies of important 1930's novelists.
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