1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

Nick Hubble is Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), The 1970s (2014), The 1990s (2015), The 2000s (2015) and London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016) all published by Bloomsbury. Luke Seaber is Tutor in Modern European Culture at University College London, UK. He is the author of Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature: Certainties in Degradation (2017). Elinor Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940 (2018).

• Contributors Series Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgements Introduction: The 1930s in the Twenty-First CenturyNick Hubble, Burnel University, UK, Luke Seaber, University College London, UK and Elinor Taylor, University of Westminster, UK1. ‘You’re not in the market at Shielding, Joe’: Beyond the Myth of the ‘Thirties’Nick Hubble2. Spectres of English Fascism: History, Aesthetics and Cultural CritiqueElinor Taylor3 Naomi Mitchison and the Class and Gender Politics of EugenicsNatasha Periyan, University of Kent, UK4. British Culture and Identity in 1930s Anglophone Literature from Australia, Canada and IndiaSabujkoli Bandopadhyay, University of Regina, Canada5. Timely Interventions and Disruptive Temporalities: Queer Writing of the 1930sGlyn Salton-Cox, University of California Santa Barabara, USA6. Private Faces in Public Places: Auto-Intertextuality, Authority and 1930s FictionLuke Seaber7. ‘How To Acquire Culture’ by The Man Who Sees: The Middlebrow, Liberal Humanism, and Morally Superior Lower-Middle-Class Citizenship in Woman’s Weekly, 1938-1939Ellie Reed, University of Roehampton, UK8. ‘It’s a narsty biziness’: Conservatism and Subversion in 1930s Detective Fiction and ThrillersGlyn White, University of Salford, UKTimeline of WorksTimeline of National EventsTimeline of International EventsBiographies of WritersIndex

An indispensable book for students and scholars of 1930s literary culture