Charles Ferrall is Senior Lecturer in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Amongst the books he has published are Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics and Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950, co-authored with Anna Jackson. Dougal McNeill is Lecturer in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of Forecasts of the Past: Globalisation, History, Realism, Utopia and has edited special issues of the International Journal of Scottish Literature and the Journal of New Zealand Literature.

'This is an exemplary book which does exactly what it says on the tin … an excellent work of literary analysis and an even better demonstration of the continuing richness of Marxist scholarship.' Bob Light, International Socialism

• 1. St George and the beast: conservative responses to the Strike; 2. The aesthetic fix: Wells, Chesterton, Bennett; 3. In the middle way: Bloomsbury and the General Strike; 4. Lady Chatterley and the end of the world; 5. Poshcrats and the orphan class: the Auden circle in the General Strike; 6. The General Strike and Scottish modernism; 7. The education of desire: labour college radicals, the General Strike and the impossible bildungsroman; 8. Remembering 1926: working-class Welsh modernisms.

Charles Ferrall is Senior Lecturer in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Amongst the books he has published are Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics and Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950, co-authored with Anna Jackson. Dougal McNeill is Lecturer in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of Forecasts of the Past: Globalisation, History, Realism, Utopia and has edited special issues of the International Journal of Scottish Literature and the Journal of New Zealand Literature.

'This is an exemplary book which does exactly what it says on the tin … an excellent work of literary analysis and an even better demonstration of the continuing richness of Marxist scholarship.' Bob Light, International Socialism

• 1. St George and the beast: conservative responses to the Strike; 2. The aesthetic fix: Wells, Chesterton, Bennett; 3. In the middle way: Bloomsbury and the General Strike; 4. Lady Chatterley and the end of the world; 5. Poshcrats and the orphan class: the Auden circle in the General Strike; 6. The General Strike and Scottish modernism; 7. The education of desire: labour college radicals, the General Strike and the impossible bildungsroman; 8. Remembering 1926: working-class Welsh modernisms.

Charles Ferrall is Senior Lecturer in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Amongst the books he has published are Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics and Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950, co-authored with Anna Jackson. Dougal McNeill is Lecturer in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of Forecasts of the Past: Globalisation, History, Realism, Utopia and has edited special issues of the International Journal of Scottish Literature and the Journal of New Zealand Literature.

'This is an exemplary book which does exactly what it says on the tin … an excellent work of literary analysis and an even better demonstration of the continuing richness of Marxist scholarship.' Bob Light, International Socialism

• 1. St George and the beast: conservative responses to the Strike; 2. The aesthetic fix: Wells, Chesterton, Bennett; 3. In the middle way: Bloomsbury and the General Strike; 4. Lady Chatterley and the end of the world; 5. Poshcrats and the orphan class: the Auden circle in the General Strike; 6. The General Strike and Scottish modernism; 7. The education of desire: labour college radicals, the General Strike and the impossible bildungsroman; 8. Remembering 1926: working-class Welsh modernisms.