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 neglecte...

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