History of 1930s British Literature

This History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The ''30s have often been cast as a literary-historical anomaly, either as a ''low, dishonest decade'', a doomed experiment in combining art and politics, or as a ''late modernist'' afterthought to the intense period of artistic experimentation in the 1920s. By contrast, the contributors to this volume explore the con...