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London Writing of the 1930s

London Writing of the 1930s

Cottrell, Anna

Hardcover

Series: Midcentury Modern Writers

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 147442564X
ISBN13: 9781474425643
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Oct 11 2017
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A bold new study of literary and photographic depictions of London in the 1930s
London Writing in the 1930s offers a new perspective on the decade that has long been associated with the Auden generation and the rise of documentary. It argues for the centrality of urban fiction and photography to the decade's experiments in representing daily life. Why the period's London-set novels were so often described as 'photographic', and what kind of photographs inspired such comparisons? Tracing representations of London by a wide range of 1930s writers and photographers, including Patrick Hamilton, Jean Rhys, George Orwell, and Bill Brandt, the book's chapters are organised around London's spaces of leisure. Teashops, cinemas, and the night clubs of Soho were central to 1930s negotiations of the interrelation between urban life, gender, and class; these settings provide this book both with cultural-historical context and with the basis for its argument about the decade's aesthetic orientations.

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