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English literature of the 1920s / David Ayers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585159270
  • 9780585159270
  • 9781474400503
  • 1474400507
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: English literature of the 1920s.DDC classification:
  • 823/.91209 21
LOC classification:
  • PR471 .A94 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.

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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.

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.

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