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Informationen zum Autor James Smith is a Reader in English Studies at Durham University. His most recent book was British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930–1960 (Cambridge, 2013). He has published widely on other aspects of 1930s literature and culture, such as on the censorship of 1930s film societies, and on government surveillance of radical literary magazines during the decade. Zusammenfassung This Companion explores an extensive range of 1930s authors! contexts! themes! and literary debates. Informed by current scholarly approaches and analysing the state of the field! it will be an important resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction James Smith; 1. Poetry Janet Montefiore; 2. The literary novel Marina MacKay; 3. Drama Claire Warden; 4. Publishing and periodicals Peter Marks; 5. The middlebrow and popular Isobel Maddison; 6. Modernism Tyrus Miller; 7. Communism and the working class John Connor; 8. Empire Judy Suh; 9. Travel Timothy Youngs; 10. The regional and the rural Kristin Bluemel; 11. The queer 1930s Glyn Salton-Cox; 12. Remembering and imagining war Phyllis Lassner; 13. Fascism and anti-fascism Mia Spiro; 14. Fashioning the 1930s Benjamin Kohlmann.
