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1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) |
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1. Men and Masculinity: The Response to Social Change. The Feminist Toryism of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End. The Proto-Fascism of Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero. Men Alone and Men Together: The Masculinist Project of D.H. Lawrence. New Family Values and Anti-Oedipal Fantasy in Warwick Deeping's Sorrell and Son -- 2. Ideals and Realities of the English Woman. The Fairy-tale of War: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier. The Magic of Independence: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes. A Question of Life and Death: Aesthetics and History in the Novels of Virginia Woolf -- 3. Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture. Reaction and Revolution in The Calendar of Modern Letters, The Criterion and The Adelphi. Hunting the Highbrow: Q.D. Leavis and the Disintegration of the Reading Public. Bloomsbury and the Miners: Ellen Wilkinson's Clash. The New World Order: D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo -- 4. Sex, Satire and the Jazz Age. Lesbian Sexology: Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness. Inverted World: Wyndham Lewis and The Apes of God. Enigmatic Femininity and English Myth: Michael Arlen's The Green Hat. Sexual Cynicism and Intellectual Despair: Aldous Huxley. Realising Sex: The Utopian Alternative to the Jazz Age in Lady Chatterley's Lover -- 5. England and its Other: Seduction and Friendship, Bodies and Ghosts. Seduced by Difference: The Sheik and Desert Love. Beyond the Reach of Empire: D.H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent. The Politics of Friendship in A Passage to India |
| Summary |
Focusing principally on the novel, this book treats works that are regarded as modernist alongside non-modernist and popular forms. These texts are examined within the context of social concerns, including gender, class politics, and the empire |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
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Nineteen twenties.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Literature and society
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Modernism (Literature)
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Nineteen twenties
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Great Britain
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585159270 |
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9780585159270 |
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9781474400503 |
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1474400507 |
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