Novelists Against Social Change

TRAMA

Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works. 

SOMMARIO

1. Introduction: Politics and Pleasure in Language2. From Communism to the Wall Street Crash: Buchan in the 1920s3. Ex-officers and Gentlemen: Yates in the 1920s 4. Political Uncertainty: Buchan in the 1930s5. Novels of Instruction: Thirkell in the 1930s 6. Aggressive Reactions: Yates in the 1930s and 1940s7. Thirkell in Wartime, 1940-458. Rewriting History: Yates and Thirkell, 1945-19609. ConclusionEndnotesAppendix 1: List of works by John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela ThirkellWorks cited Index       

AUTORE

Kate Macdonald teaches British literature and publishing history in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK. She researches twentieth-century British book culture, publishing history and popular reading, on which she has published widely.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781349567904
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: VIII, 271 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 271
• Pagine Romane: viii