THE PROLETARIAN ANSWER TO THE MODERNIST QUESTION by Nick Hubble ( 9781474415828 )

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THE PROLETARIAN ANSWER TO THE MODERNIST QUESTION

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Nick Hubble

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1474415822

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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 September, 2017

Pages:

360

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This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.

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This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Critical analysis and close readings of key works such as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naomi Mitchison's We have Been Warned, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair and John Sommerfield's May Day, are placed within a literary history stretching from early encounters between Ford Madox Ford and D.H. Lawrence, through Virginia Woolf's association with the Women's Co-operative Guild, and on to the activity of Mass Observation in the late 1930s and 1940s. The study analyses the way in which modernism and proletarian literature were related to an intersectional web of class and gender that took on a potent political shape following the 1926 General Strike and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928. The 1930s is revealed not as an atypical, isolated decade but as central to the literature of the twentieth century.

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