Intermodernism : : Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain / / Kristin Bluemel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bluemel, Kristin,
• MitwirkendeR: Bluemel, Kristin,; Cohen, Debra Rae,; Colletta, Lisa,; Fordham, John,; Hammill, Faye,; Hepburn, Allan,; Hubble, Nick,; Lassner, Phyllis,; Marcus, Laura,; Maslen, Elizabeth,; Montefiore, Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635092);This collection of original critical essays challenges readers to accept a new term, new critical category, and new literary history for twentieth-century British literature. It takes as its primary subject the fascinating and typically neglected writing of the years of the Depression and World War II - the fiction, memoirs, criticism, and journalism of writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Storm Jameson, William Empson, George Orwell, J. B. Priestley, Harold Heslop, T. H. White, Rebecca West, John Grierson, Margery Allingham, and Stella Gibbons. Divided into four sections: Work; Community; War; and Documents, the volume focuses on qualities that distinguish these writers' literary efforts from those of the modernists or postmodernists, elucidating the web of historical, institutional, and personal relationships that together define intermodernism.Researching, analyzing, and theorising intermodernism, this book focuses on three kinds of intermodern features in texts that are typically ignored in accounts of modernism or The Auden Generation: cultural features (intermodernists typically represent working-class and working middle-class cultures); political features (intermodernists are politically radical, 'radically eccentric'); and literary features (intermodernists are committed to non-canonical, even 'middlebrow' or 'mass' genres). To encourage future scholarship on intermodernism, the volume concludes with an appendix, 'Who Were the Intermodernists?', and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.Key featuresPresents ten original chapters written by active and prominent scholars of mid-century British literary cultureLaunches an ambitious, long-term project that marks out a new period and style in twentieth-century literary historyBroad-ranging, treating novels, journalism, manifestos, short stories, film, poetry, memoirs, letters, and travel narratives of the interwar, war, and immediately post-World War II years

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: What is Intermodernism? -- Part I: Work -- 1 A Cassandra with Clout: Storm Jameson, Little Englander and Good European -- 2 Englands Ancient and Modern: Sylvia Townsend Warner, T. H. White and the Fictions of Medieval Englishness -- 3 ‘A Strange Field’: Region and Class in the Novels of Harold Heslop -- Part II: Comm -- 4 Stella Gibbons, Ex-Centricity and the Suburb -- 5 Intermodern Travel: J. B. Priestley’s English and American Journeys -- Part III: War -- 6 Under Suspicion: The Plotting of Britain in World War II Detective Spy Fiction -- 7 Trials and Errors: The Heat of the Day and Postwar Culpability -- 8 Rebecca West’s Palimpsestic Praxis: Crafting the Intermodern Voice of Witness -- Part IV: Documents -- 9 The Intermodern Assumption of the Future: William Empson, Charles Madge and Mass-Observation -- 10 ‘The creative treatment of actuality’: John Grierson, Documentary Cinema and ‘Fact’ in the 1930s -- Appendix: Who are the Intermodernists? -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index