English Literature of the 1920s / / David Ayers.

The English literature of the 1920s is commonly treated in terms of its position within European or Anglo-American Modernism. This book argues that the English literature of the period can be better understood when it is examined in the context of a more local social and literary history. Focusing p...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Men and Masculinity: The Response to Social Change
  • 2 Ideals and Realities of the English Woman
  • 3 Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture
  • 4 Sex, Satire and the Jazz Age
  • 5 England and its Other: Seduction and Friendship, Bodies and Ghosts
  • Bibliography
  • Index