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Mid-Century Romance: Modernism, Socialist Culture, and the Historical Novel

Mid-Century Romance: Modernism, Socialist Culture, and the Historical Novel - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:John T. ConnorSeries:Oxford Mid-Century StudiesPublish date:2024-11-01Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192859754ISBN-10:192859757UPC:9780192859754Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Modern, EssaysBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.44 x 6.41 x 0.83 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SC9FJWVHGW
Mid-Century Romance chronicles a revival of the historical novel in thehe middle decades of the twentieth century in the cultures of British modernism and international communism. Born of a national turn in world politics, these novels met the turbulence of mid-century history with narratives of national becoming, roadmaps to situate their readers in the pattern of social change. Their writers were often mindful of the genre's romantic-era heritage: they saw themselves as following in the footsteps of Sir Walter Scott and they drew on the same rescued remains of primitive poetry and popular antiquities that romanticism first used to construct its versions of national identity, culture, and tradition. This book shows how the impulse to salvage traces of ancestral culture and press them to new purpose links the mid-century national-historical novel to the rise of radical social history and magical realism.
Post-war anticommunism shaped a tradition of the novel as a preserve of art and the individual. Mid-Century Romance counters with a different genealogy of the British and world novel, whose object is society and the future of community, the nation and its people. It situates its cast of British writers--including the modernists Hope Mirrlees and Virginia Woolf, the communists Jack Lindsay and Sylvia Townsend Warner, the eccentric modernist and sometime fellow traveller John Cowper Powys, and the New Left luminary Raymond Williams--in a transnational perspective that reaches from Bihar, India to Bahia, Brazil.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192859754ISBN-10:192859757UPC:9780192859754Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Modern, EssaysBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.44 x 6.41 x 0.83 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SC9FJWVHGW
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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