{"product_id":"the-proletarian-answer-to-the-modernist-question-paperback","title":"The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNick Hubble\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and modernism in Britain\u003cbr\u003eThis book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Critical analysis and close readings of key works such as D.H. Lawrence's \u003ci\u003eLady Chatterley's Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, Naomi Mitchison's \u003ci\u003eWe have Been Warned\u003c\/i\u003e, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's \u003ci\u003eA Scots Quair\u003c\/i\u003e and John Sommerfield's \u003ci\u003eMay Day\u003c\/i\u003e, are placed within a literary history stretching from early encounters between Ford Madox Ford and D.H. Lawrence, through Virginia Woolf's association with the Women's Co-operative Guild, and on to the activity of Mass Observation in the late 1930s and 1940s. The study analyses the way in which modernism and proletarian literature were related to an intersectional web of class and gender that took on a potent political shape following the 1926 General Strike and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928. The 1930s is revealed not as an atypical, isolated decade but as central to the literature of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRelates modernism to the intersubjective dimension of societySets out a new perspective on proletarian literature in Britain, releasing it from limiting conceptions of working class authenticity or Soviet-imposed socialist realismShows how modernism and proletarian literature were linked products of the (broadly) fin-de-siècle emergence of the unconscious that fractured nineteenth-century grand narrativesProvides an historical framework for rethinking the 1930s as not an atypical isolated decade but as central to the literature of the twentieth century\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nick Hubble is a subtle and adept theorist, an engaging and authoritative guide to the political meanings of diverse literary genres and a sensitive reader with an easy reference to a broad range of key primary and secondary texts. He is an expert whose feeling for the drama of everyday life and command of history turns his modernist readers into experts on proletarian literature, too.' Kristin Bluemel, Monmouth University Reformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and modernism in Britain The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain. Critical analysis and close readings of key works are placed within a literary history stretching from early encounters between Ford Madox Ford and D. H. Lawrence, through Virginia Woolf's association with the Women's Co-operative Guild, and on to the activity of Mass Observation in the late 1930s and 1940s. The book analyses the way in which modernism and proletarian literature were related to an intersectional web of class and gender that took on a potent political shape following the 1926 General Strike and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928. The 1930s is revealed not as an atypical, isolated decade but as central to the literature of the twentieth century. Nick Hubble is Reader in English at Brunel University London. Cover image: Women factory workers, Soviet Union, 1930s (c) akg-images \/ Universal Images Group \/ Sovfoto Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-1582-8 Barcode\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNick Hubble\u003c\/strong\u003e is Reader in English at Brunel University London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46397650141319,"sku":"9781474444392","price":58.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/sxrf5DNSIB9781474444392.webp?v=1793559013","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-proletarian-answer-to-the-modernist-question-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}