British Writers of the Thirties by Valentine Cunningham
This volume contains a broad survey and critical account of British literature of the 1930s. The author examines the extent to which writers of the period shared a common set of images, themes, ambitions and obsessions, regardless of ideological differences.Valentine Cunningham is a Senior Fellow in English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and an Oxford University Professor of English Language and Literature. He has written several reviews on literary matters, given numerous BBC radio talks on literary and musicological issues, given numerous lectures on literary and literary-historical topics around the world, served as a Visiting Professor of Literature in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany, and judged numerous literary prizes, including the Man-Booker Prize (twice!). Everywhere Said Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel (1975), British Writers of the Thirties (1988), In the Reading Gaol: (Post)modernity, Texts, and History (1994), Reading After Theory (2002), and Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems, Poetics (2011) are only a few of his publications. The Penguin Book of Spanish War Poems (1980), Spanish Front: Poets on the Civil War (1986), and The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (2000) are among his publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192826558 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192826557 |
| Title | British Writers of the Thirties |
| Author | Valentine Cunningham |
| Series | Clarendon Paperbacks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1989-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 532 |
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