English literature of the 1920s. ([2020?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Ayers.
• Authors: Ayers, David, 1960-
• Contents: 1. Men and Masculinity: The Response to Social Change. The Feminist Toryism of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End. The Proto-Fascism of Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero. Men Alone and Men Together: The Masculinist Project of D.H. Lawrence. New Family Values and Anti-Oedipal Fantasy in Warwick Deeping's Sorrell and Son -- 2. Ideals and Realities of the English Woman. The Fairy-tale of War: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier. The Magic of Independence: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes. A Question of Life and Death: Aesthetics and History in the Novels of Virginia Woolf -- 3. Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture. Reaction and Revolution in The Calendar of Modern Letters, The Criterion and The Adelphi. Hunting the Highbrow: Q.D. Leavis and the Disintegration of the Reading Public. Bloomsbury and the Miners: Ellen Wilkinson's Clash. The New World Order: D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo -- 4. Sex, Satire and the Jazz Age. Lesbian Sexology: Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness. Inverted World: Wyndham Lewis and The Apes of God. Enigmatic Femininity and English Myth: Michael Arlen's The Green Hat. Sexual Cynicism and Intellectual Despair: Aldous Huxley. Realising Sex: The Utopian Alternative to the Jazz Age in Lady Chatterley's Lover -- 5. England and its Other: Seduction and Friendship, Bodies and Ghosts. Seduced by Difference: The Sheik and Desert Love. Beyond the Reach of Empire: D.H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent. The Politics of Friendship in A Passage to India.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 1999
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages)
• Subjects: 823.91209; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Nineteen twenties; Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique; Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle; Modernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne; Années vingt (Vingtième siècle); LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Literature and society; Modernism (Literature); Nineteen twenties; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English Literature; English; Languages & Literatures; Great Britain; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474400503; 1474400507
• Related ISBNs: 9780748609857; 0748609857
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
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