Elinor Taylor, Ph.D. (2014), University of Salford, is currently a lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. She is the author of several articles on Communist writers.

“Without doubt, this is a meticulously researched, extremely well written and illuminating new study that [...] cover[s] important aspects of novels that have been previously neglected or ignored.”—Ronald Paul, Socialism and Democracy

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Popular FrontCulture, Crisis and DemocracyThe Popular Front NovelRealism and Modernism1 Anti-Fascist Aesthetics in International ContextSocialist RealismBritish DevelopmentsLanguage, Form and PopularityRalph Fox’s RealismConclusion2 John Sommerfield, May Day (1936)John Sommerfield: Literature and ActivismVox Populi and Bird’s EyeMontage and MemoryMyth and TraditionConclusion3 Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky (1937)Bathos and Narrative ConventionFailures of ArticulationConclusionHistory and the Historical Novel4 History and the Historical NovelBritish Communists and English HistoryThe Historical Novel of the Popular FrontJack Lindsay’s English TrilogyConclusionClass, Nation, People5 James Barke and the National TurnThe National Turn (I): British QuestionsThe National Turn (II): Critical Voices‘There is no Scottish National Question’James Barke, Major Operation (1936)James Barke, The Land of the Leal (1939)Conclusion6 Lewis Jones’s FictionShame, Vision and ReificationForms and ModesSpain and HomeConclusionConclusionWorks CitedIndex