Intermodernism : literary culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain /
This collection of original critical essays challenges readers to accept a new term, new critical category, and new literary history for twentieth-century British literature. It takes as its primary subject the fascinating and typically neglected writing of the years of the Depression and World War...
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Table of Contents:
- A Cassandra with clout: Storm Jameson, little Englander and good European / Elizabeth Maslen
- Englands ancient and modern: Sylvia Townsend Warner, T.H. White and the fictions of medieval Englishness / Janet Montefiore
- 'A strange field': region and class in the novels of Harold Heslop / John Fordham
- Stella Gibbons, ex-centricity and the suburb / Faye Hammill
- Intermodern travel: J.B. Priestley's English and American journeys / Lisa Colletta
- Under suspicion: the plotting of Britain in World War II detective spy fiction / Phyllis Lassner
- Trials and errors: The Heat of the Day and postwar culpability / Allan Hepburn
- Rebecca West's palimpsestic praxis: crafting the intermodern voice of witness / Debra Rae Cohen
- THe intermodern assumption of the future: William Empson, Charles Madge and mass-observation / Nick Hubble
- 'The creative treatment of actuality': John Grierson, documentary cinema and 'fact' in the 1930s / Laura Marcus.