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Writing the 1926 General Strike : literature, culture, politics
- Title
- Writing the 1926 General Strike : literature, culture, politics / Charles Ferrall, Victoria University of Wellington ; Dougal McNeill, Victoria University of Wellington.
- Author
- Ferrall, Charles
- Publication
- New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- McNeill, Dougal, 1981-
- Description
- ix, 225 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill's book analyses the vast literary response to the 1926 General Strike. The Strike not only drew writers into political action but inspired literature that served to shape twentieth-century British views of class, culture and politics. While major figures active at the time wrote on or responded to this crucial moment, this is the first volume to address their respective works. Ferrall and McNeill show how novels then in progress, such as Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, were affected by the Strike, as well as the ways in which it has been remembered from the 1930s to the present. Their study sheds new light on the relationship between politics and literature of the modernist era"--
- Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- General Strike, Great Britain, 1926, in literature
- Politics and literature > Great Britain
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English fiction
- General Strike (Great Britain : 1926) in literature
- Politics and literature
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The great strike and modern memory -- 1. St George and the beast: conservative responses to the Strike -- 2. The aesthetic fix: Wells, Chesterton, Bennett -- 3. In the middle way: Bloomsbury and the General Strike -- 4. Lady Chatterley and the end of the world -- 5. Poshcrats and the orphan class: the Auden circle in the General Strike -- 6. The General Strike and Scottish modernism -- 7. The education of desire: labour college radicals, the General Strike and the impossible bildungsroman -- 8. Remembering 1926: working-class Welsh modernisms -- Conclusion: The general strike's afterlives.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-2334
- ISBN
- 9781107100039
- 1107100038
- LCCN
- 2014043436
- OCLC
- 894670692
- Author
- Ferrall, Charles, author.
- Title
- Writing the 1926 General Strike : literature, culture, politics / Charles Ferrall, Victoria University of Wellington ; Dougal McNeill, Victoria University of Wellington.
- Publisher
- New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Added Author
- McNeill, Dougal, 1981- author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-2334