1920s

A Decade of Modern British Fiction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvTamás Bényei,Shene Boskani,Nick Hubble

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The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism. This book takes a fresh approach to the decade by examining both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.From the aftermath of First World War to the Great Depression of 1929, and its political consequences, the 1920s were a decade marked by radical social change. Internationally, there was an ongoing shift of global power and nationally, Britain was adjusting to the aftermath of First World War, to no longer being the dominant imperial power in the world, and to the introduction of universal male suffrage and votes for women over thirty, which was extended to those over twenty-one in 1928. This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to these contexts in order to reassess and explain trends of the period, such as war books, fantastic romance, literary modernism, and new expressions of gender and sexuality.A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Agatha Christie, E. M. Forster, Ethel Mannin, Somerset Maugham, R. H. Mottram, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, A. A. Milne, Hope Mirrlees, Naomi Mitchison, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, among others; illustrating how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-21
Mått156 x 238 x 24 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDecades Series
Antal sidor344
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350433434

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Contributors Series Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction:Tamás Bényei (University of Debrecen, Hungary), Shene Boskani (Brunel University London, UK) and Nick Hubble (Brunel University London, UK)1. Fairy Fruit and Creative Auto-Intoxication: The 1920s as a Decade of Fantastic RomanceNick Hubble (Brunel University London, UK)2. The Way Things (Still) Are: Women, Visions and Realities in the 1920sLesley A. Hall (University College London, UK)3. The Shapes of Time: Novelistic Form and Decadal Time in the 1920s British NovelTyrus Miller (University of California, Irvine, USA)4. The First World War in the 1920s Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)5. Home and Away: The Fiction of the 1920s and the British EmpireTamás Bényei (University of Debrecen, Hungary),6. Casting Shadows: Women, Absence, and History in the Gendered Narratives of Naomi MitchisonShene Boskani (Brunel University London, UK)7. Englishness, Modernism and Gender—The Hungarian Reception of Virginia Woolf Nóra Séllei (University of Debrecen, Hungary)8. Platforming the Poor in 1920s Britain: Habermas, Foucault, and the Politics of DisplayLuke Lewin Davies (University of Tromsø, Norway)9. Animals at the Hearth: A.A. Milne, E. H. Shepard and Illustrated Fantasies of Rural LivingKristin Bluemel (Monmouth University, USA) Timeline of WorksTimeline of National EventsTimeline of International EventsBiographies of WritersIndex

This volume undertakes a salutary unravelling and re-weaving of literary history. Returning to the beginning of a turbulent century of social and literary change, the editors and contributors incisively trace a host of fictional modalities that supplement and blur the narrative of modernism, revealing the decade of the 1920s as a complex braid, excitingly rife with experiments both gendered and generic.