Politics of 1930s British Literature

Education, Class, Gender

AvNatasha Periyan,Erik Tonning

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Winner of the 2018 International Standing Conference for the History of Education’s First Book AwardDrawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s British Literature tells the story of a school-minded decade and illuminates new readings of the politics and aesthetics of 1930s literature.In a period of shifting political claims, educational policy shaped writers’ social and gender ideals. This book explores how a wide array of writers including Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Winifred Holtby and Graham Greene were informed by their pedagogic work. It considers the ways in which education influenced writers’ analysis of literary style and their conception of future literary forms. The Politics of 1930s British Literature argues that to those perennial symbols of the 1930s, the loudspeaker and the gramophone, should be added the textbook and the blackboard.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-26
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:417 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historicizing Modernism
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350143210

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

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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.

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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