The Popular Front Novel In Britain, 1934-1940
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Popular Front Novel In Britain, 1934-1940
By (Author) Elinor Taylor
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
24th January 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Literature: history and criticism
Politics and government
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 153mm, Height 228mm
Description
In The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934 1940, Elinor Taylor provides the first study of the relationship between the British novel and the anti-fascist Popular Front strategy endorsed by the Comintern in 1935. Through readings of novels by British Communists including, Taylor shows that the realist novel of the left was a key site in which the politics of anti-fascist alliance were rehearsed. This book at once illuminates the cultural formation of the Popular Front in Britain and proposes a new framework for reading British fiction of this period.
Author Bio
Elinor Taylor, Ph.D. (2014), University of Salford, is currently a lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. She is the author of several articles on Communist writers.
