Natasha Periyan is a Research Associate at the University of Kent, UK.

• AcknowledgmentsEditorial Preface to Historicizing ModernismIntroduction1. W.H. Auden: Pedagogy and Freedom of Choice in the 1930s2. Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain and the Politics of Pedagogy in South Riding, Honourable Estate and Testament of Youth3. Writers of The Old School: Graham Greene, Walter Greenwood, Stephen Spender, Antonia White and Arthur Calder-Marshall4. 'Altering the structure of society': Virginia Woolf's Class-Critique of Educational Institutions in the 1930s5. 'Making Him Our Master': The Eton writers George Orwell, Cyril Connolly and Henry GreenCodaBibliographyIndex

The work is a cogent and convincing assessment of numerous responses to education in the literature of the 1930s, but the argument resists the temptation to generalize ...The characterization of the writers resonates often with Woolf’s “The Leaning Tower,” but the methodology allows readers to spark their own fires from the friction of the commentaries on related texts, legislation, letters, etc.: an instance of an individualist educative technique in itself, perhaps.