The 1930S: A Challenge To Orthodoxy
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The 1930s stand as one of the most turbulent and creatively charged decades in modern British cultural history — a period of economic collapse, rising fascism, and radical artistic ferment that demanded writers and thinkers take sides. The 1930s: A Challenge to Orthodoxy, edited by John Lucas, Professor of English at the University of Loughborough, presents a compelling reassessment of the decade's literary and intellectual output, gathering critical essays that interrogate the dominant narratives and received wisdom surrounding the era's writers, poets, and cultural movements. The collection challenges the comfortable orthodoxies that had calcified around figures of the period, arguing instead for a more rigorous, politically aware reading of the decade's output. Lucas and his contributors approach the 1930s not as a mere footnote to modernism but as a distinct and fiercely contested cultural moment, one in which the relationship between art and ideology was tested to its limits. The essays illustrate the breadth of the decade's radical impulse — from the committed leftist poetry of Auden and Spender to the prose of working-class writers long overlooked by the canonical gaze. For students and scholars of twentieth-century literature and cultural history, this anthology remains an essential, provocative intervention — one that leaves the reader questioning just how much of the 1930s has yet to be truly understood.
Author: John Lucas
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Some tanning. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
The 1930s stand as one of the most turbulent and creatively charged decades in modern British cultural history — a period of economic collapse, rising fascism, and radical artistic ferment that demanded writers and thinkers take sides. The 1930s: A Challenge to Orthodoxy, edited by John Lucas, Professor of English at the University of Loughborough, presents a compelling reassessment of the decade's literary and intellectual output, gathering critical essays that interrogate the dominant narratives and received wisdom surrounding the era's writers, poets, and cultural movements. The collection challenges the comfortable orthodoxies that had calcified around figures of the period, arguing instead for a more rigorous, politically aware reading of the decade's output. Lucas and his contributors approach the 1930s not as a mere footnote to modernism but as a distinct and fiercely contested cultural moment, one in which the relationship between art and ideology was tested to its limits. The essays illustrate the breadth of the decade's radical impulse — from the committed leftist poetry of Auden and Spender to the prose of working-class writers long overlooked by the canonical gaze. For students and scholars of twentieth-century literature and cultural history, this anthology remains an essential, provocative intervention — one that leaves the reader questioning just how much of the 1930s has yet to be truly understood.