TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baldick,Chris
TI  - Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins: Volume 3 
T2  - The Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain : EH20CLB
SN  - 9780748627301
U1  - 820.900912 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Nineteen twenties
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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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ER  -