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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825450603321

Autore

Hopkins Chris <1960->

Titolo

English fiction in the 1930s : language, genre, history / / Chris Hopkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2006

ISBN

1-283-12297-9

9786613122971

1-4411-7289-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies series

Disciplina

823.91209

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Nineteen thirties

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Modernism and modernity -- pt. 2. Documentary and proletarian pastoral -- pt. 3. History and the historical novel -- pt. 4. Thrillers and dystopias.

Sommario/riassunto

This study approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time.  Chris Hopkins uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or explore the boundaries, contemporary usefulness and complexities of particular prose genres. Generic debates and the political-aesthetic effects of different kinds of representation were live issues as discursive struggles and negotiations took place between modernist and realist modes, between high,