British Writers of the Thirties by Valentine Cunningham

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 Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, and Senior Fellow in English Literature, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has reviewed widely on literary topics, done many BBC radio talks on literary and musicological issues, lectured a lot around the world on literary and literary-historical issues, has been a Visiting Professor of Literature in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Germany, and judged many literary prizes, including The Man-Booker Prize (twice!). His books include Everywhere Spoken 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). His editions include The Penguin Book of Spanish War Verse (1980), Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War (1986), and The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (2000).

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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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