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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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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