The 1920s
A Decade of Modern British Fiction
Tamás Bényei editor Dr Nick Hubble editor Shene Boskani editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:21st Aug '25
£100.00
This title is due to be published on 21st August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

A wide-ranging critical re-evaluation of British fiction of the 1920s, this book examines writers from Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster to A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.
The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism. This book takes a fresh approach to the decade by examining both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.
From the aftermath of First World War to the Great Depression of 1929, and its political consequences, the 1920s were a decade marked by radical social change. Internationally, there was an ongoing shift of global power and nationally, Britain was adjusting to the aftermath of First World War, to no longer being the dominant imperial power in the world, and to the introduction of universal male suffrage and votes for women over thirty, which was extended to those over twenty-one in 1928. This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to these contexts in order to reassess and explain trends of the period, such as war books, fantastic romance, literary modernism, and new expressions of gender and sexuality.
A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Agatha Christie, E. M. Forster, Ethel Mannin, Somerset Maugham, R. H. Mottram, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, A. A. Milne, Hope Mirrlees, Naomi Mitchison, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, among others; illustrating how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.
This volume undertakes a salutary unravelling and re-weaving of literary history. Returning to the beginning of a turbulent century of social and literary change, the editors and contributors incisively trace a host of fictional modalities that supplement and blur the narrative of modernism, revealing the decade of the 1920s as a complex braid, excitingly rife with experiments both gendered and generic. -- Debra Rae Cohen, Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina, USA
ISBN: 9781350433434
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336 pages