Picturing England Between the Wars - Word and Image 1918-1940

Picturing England between the Wars offers a richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space during the interwar period.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Prologue


• Part One: Mapping the Imagined Land


• 1: Some versions of Arcady


• 2: Searching for a Place


• 3: Modern Pilgrims


• 4: Moving towards Truths


• Part Two: Many Mansions


• 5: Housing for the People


• 6: Houses for Moderate means


• 7: Modernism


• Part Three: Seeing and the Reading Public


• 8: Book, Image, and Social Presence


• 9: Some uses of Imagery


• 10: Imaging the Classics


• 11: The Ruralist and the Premier


• Part Four: Weekly Communities


• 12: Magazines for All


• 13: Magazines for Women


• 14: The Practical Habit: Magazines for Men


• 15: Air Mindedness


• Coda: 'Such a crop . . . as never'


• Select Bibliography

About the author

Stuart Sillars read English and Music at the University of Exeter and after working in a series of further and higher education, including the Open University and the faculty of English at Cambridge, he was appointed Professor of English at Bergen where he teaches across a range of topics and levels. His MA degree was concerned with music and poetry and this developed his interest in relations between the arts. His most recent volume reflects an earlier and continuing interest in the social, intellectual, and cultural forms of the years between the two world wars.

Summary

Picturing England between the Wars offers a richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space during the interwar period.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Sillars, Stuart (Emeritus Professor of English Sillars, Sillars Stuart
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2021
• EAN: 9780198828921
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882892-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 20th Century, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000