Bloomsbury Academic The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (The Decades Series)

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1930s shape modern British fiction? With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on the Auden generation, this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and cultural democratization that characterized the decade. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Mulk Raj Anand, Agatha Christie, E.M. Forster, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Evelyn Waugh, T.H. White and many others.