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In The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940, Elinor Taylor provides the first study of the relationship between the British novel and the anti-fascist Popular Front strategy endorsed by the Comintern in 1935. Through readings of novels by British Communists including Jack Lindsay, John Sommerfield, Lewis Jones and James Barke, Taylor shows that the realist novel of the left was a key site in which the politics of anti-fascist alliance were rehearsed. Maintaining a dialogue with theories of populism and with Georg Lukács’s vision of a revived literary realism ensuing from the Popular Front, this book at once illuminates the cultural formation of the Popular Front in Britain and proposes a new framework for reading British fiction of this period.

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Author:   Elinor Taylor
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   153
Weight:   0.507kg
ISBN:  

9789004316102

ISBN 10:   9004316108
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction  The Popular Front  Culture, Crisis and Democracy  The Popular Front Novel Realism and Modernism 1 Anti-Fascist Aesthetics in International Context  Socialist Realism  British Developments  Language, Form and Popularity  Ralph Fox’s Realism  Conclusion 2 John Sommerfield, May Day (1936)  John Sommerfield: Literature and Activism  Vox Populi and Bird’s Eye  Montage and Memory  Myth and Tradition  Conclusion 3 Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky (1937)  Bathos and Narrative Convention  Failures of Articulation  Conclusion History and the Historical Novel 4 History and the Historical Novel  British Communists and English History  The Historical Novel of the Popular Front  Jack Lindsay’s English Trilogy  Conclusion Class, Nation, People 5 James Barke and the National Turn  The National Turn (I): British Questions  The National Turn (II): Critical Voices  ‘There is no Scottish National Question’  James Barke, Major Operation (1936)  James Barke, The Land of the Leal (1939)  Conclusion 6 Lewis Jones’s Fiction  Shame, Vision and Reification  Forms and Modes  Spain and Home  Conclusion Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Elinor Taylor, Ph.D. (2014), University of Salford, is currently a lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. She is the author of several articles on Communist writers.

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