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

This study provides an account of the historical novel during the middle of the twentieth century, which has gone largely unremarked in accounts of the period and of the genre, and which connects it to the concerns of late modernism and socialist culture.

List of contents

• Introduction: Modernism, Socialist Culture, and the Mid-Century National Turn


• 1: Hope Mirrlees and Virginia Woolf in the 'footprints of Sir Walter Scott'


• 2: Migrations of the Communist Historical Novel


• 3: Memories of Spain in Sylvia Townsend Warner and John Cowper Powys


• 4: Jack Lindsay, Socialist Humanism and the Communist Historical Novel


• Epilogue: Parables of Survival


• Acknowledgments


• Works Cited

About the author

John T. Connor is Lecturer in Literature and Politics at King's College, London.

Summary

This study provides an account of the historical novel during the middle of the twentieth century, which has gone largely unremarked in accounts of the period and of the genre, and which connects it to the concerns of late modernism and socialist culture.

Product details

• Authors: John T. Connor, John T. (Lecturer in Literature and Politi Connor, Connor John T.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9780192859754
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285975-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000