{"product_id":"9781350019843","title":"The Politics of 1930s British Literature : Education, Class, Gender","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Politics of 1930s British Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Natasha Periyan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of 1930s British Literature \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a school-minded decade and illuminates new readings of the politics and aesthetics of 1930s literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a period of shifting political claims, educational policy shaped writers' social and gender ideals. This book explores how a wide array of writers including Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Winifred Holtby and Graham Greene were informed by their pedagogic work. It considers the ways in which education influenced writers' analysis of literary style and their conception of future literary forms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of 1930s British Literature \u003c\/i\u003eargues that to those perennial symbols of the 1930s, the loudspeaker and the gramophone, should be added the textbook and the blackboard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"The work is a cogent and convincing assessment of numerous responses to education in the literature of the 1930s, but the argument resists the temptation to generalize ...The characterization of the writers resonates often with Woolf’s “The Leaning Tower,” but the methodology allows readers to spark their own fires from the friction of the commentaries on related texts, legislation, letters, etc.: an instance of an individualist educative technique in itself, perhaps.\" - \u003ci\u003eModernism\/modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350019843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40706864808142,"sku":"9781350019843","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_50663a12-7636-4baa-97d4-433da23b961d.jpg?v=1640582149","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350019843","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}