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Literature of the 1920s : Writers Among the Ruins: Volume 3 / Chris Baldick.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain : EH20CLBPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]Copyright date: 2012Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 10 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748627301
  • 9780748631438
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.900912 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- General Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: In Search of the Twentyish -- 1. A Literature of Ideas -- 2. Mixing Memory and Desire: Modernism and Anachronism -- 3. Never Such Innocence: Versions of Experience and Disillusionment -- 4. Impunities: Crime, Comedy and Camp -- 5. But It Still Goes On: The Passing of the Twenties -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: The first general account of this exceptionally vibrant decade of writing in BritainEclipsed until now by the dominant story of Modernism, a much more inclusive range of 1920s literature emerges freshly illuminated in Chris Baldick’s approachable history. The Twenties are reclaimed here as a period with its own distinctive historical awareness and creative agenda, one in which Modernist and non-Modernist currents are shown to engage with common memories and preoccupations.Spanning many genres high and low, including war memoirs, critical essays and detective stories as well as drama, poetry and the novel, Baldick's account situates leading works and authors of the decade – Eliot, Woolf, Lawrence, Huxley, Coward and others - among a rich array of their lesser-known contemporaries to discover common obsessions - especially with the now ‘lost’ world of pre-War Britain - and shared moods of elegiac despair, nervous frivolity and bold irreverence.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- General Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: In Search of the Twentyish -- 1. A Literature of Ideas -- 2. Mixing Memory and Desire: Modernism and Anachronism -- 3. Never Such Innocence: Versions of Experience and Disillusionment -- 4. Impunities: Crime, Comedy and Camp -- 5. But It Still Goes On: The Passing of the Twenties -- Works Cited -- Index

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The first general account of this exceptionally vibrant decade of writing in BritainEclipsed until now by the dominant story of Modernism, a much more inclusive range of 1920s literature emerges freshly illuminated in Chris Baldick’s approachable history. The Twenties are reclaimed here as a period with its own distinctive historical awareness and creative agenda, one in which Modernist and non-Modernist currents are shown to engage with common memories and preoccupations.Spanning many genres high and low, including war memoirs, critical essays and detective stories as well as drama, poetry and the novel, Baldick's account situates leading works and authors of the decade – Eliot, Woolf, Lawrence, Huxley, Coward and others - among a rich array of their lesser-known contemporaries to discover common obsessions - especially with the now ‘lost’ world of pre-War Britain - and shared moods of elegiac despair, nervous frivolity and bold irreverence.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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