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A deeply impressive, ambitious and significant work of criticism which succeeds, triumphantly, in addressing both canonical and rather more neglected texts with élan.-- ""Leo Mellor, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge"" Salton-Cox makes an exciting contribution to our understanding of the British literary left in the 1930s. Tracing the intricate crossings of queer sexualities, middle-class class identities and proletarian politics, this study turns a queer eye on leftist writers both canonical and lesser-known, yielding fresh critical insights into this unique period.-- ""Tyrus Miller, University of California-Irvine"" ...an important book that deserves to be read widely by scholars of mid-century British literature and culture. Its incisive engagement with canonical and non-canonical writers testifies to a new wave of interest in the literary and artistic culture of the 1930s. Finally, Salton-Cox's book can help us explain why the politics of the 1930s look queer from the perspective of today, and why that queerness should matter to us.--Benjamin Kohlmann ""The Review of English Studies""

Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love demonstrates how literary scholarship can make the literature and art of the 1930s newly compelling to contemporary readers and criticsEL an important book that deserves to be read widely by scholars of mid-century British literature and culture. -- Benjamin Kohlmann, The Review of English Studies

...an important book that deserves to be read widely by scholars of mid-century British literature and culture. Its incisive engagement with canonical and non-canonical writers testifies to a new wave of interest in the literary and artistic culture of the 1930s. Finally, Salton-Cox's book can help us explain why the politics of the 1930s look queer from the perspective of today, and why that queerness should matter to us.--Benjamin Kohlmann The Review of English Studies

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Glyn Salton-Cox is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Amongst other publications, his work has appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, Critical Quarterly, Comparative Literature, and Twentieth-Century Communism, and is forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s and The Cambridge History of 1930s British Literature. He is currently working on a monograph on the cultural, literary, and intellectual history of the lumpenproletariat.

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