Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780582075504
Size: 35.98 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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As literary and cultural studies expand into new areas of enquiry, the aim of this three-volume sequence is to provide an intertextual cultural history of modern Britain, one in which literary, cultural and historical processes are intimately connected. It is a survey in which culture is seen neither as a mere reflection of social forces nor as separate from such forces, but rather as a participating and moulding factor in the history of perception in this country throughout the twentieth century. This book covers the period 1930-1955. It began with Britain coming off the gold standard and ended with Harold Macmillan telling the British people that they had never had it so good. These were the years that saw the establishment of an interventionist state, the spread of mass culture, and the replacement of class consciousness by the celebration of consumerism. The essays in this volume consider how different forms of culture both facilitated and resisted these developments. Written in a lively and accessible manner, they provide a wealth of insight and information into the novels, the poetry, the theatre, the popular fiction, the painting, the press, the cinema, the radio, the music and the technology of the period. Not only do they constitute an excellent guide to these diverse cultural forms, they also provide a valuable historical perspective on current debates about the nature and role of culture in society.
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Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Size: 50.15 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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This essential guide and reference work provides a unique insight into over 100 years of publishing and reading as well as taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.
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Author: Sean Street
Publisher: JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING
ISBN:
Size: 27.80 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Histories of British broadcasting suggest that the BBC monopoly was never seriously challenged until the coming of ITV in 1955. Crossing the Ether counters this view, telling the story of commercial radio's first challenge to the Public Service monopoly between 1930 and 1939. In the telling, this account provides substantial primary evidence that radio in Britain during the 1930s was a battleground between continental-based stations, run by British and American commercial interests, and the BBC, beset by paternalistic and sabbatarian principles.
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Author: Patrick Deane
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780718501433
Size: 45.47 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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This collection of social, political and cultural history writings from the 1930s, a decade still too often characterized as that of the 'Auden Generation', brings together important texts of the period and makes accessible some of the key writings of the decade which are either scattered and difficult to locate, or have long been out of print. The anthology offers students and the general reader the opportunity to explore the full range of ideas behind the fiction, poetry, art and music of the 1930s.
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Author: Kate Macdonald
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Size: 53.61 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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"This comprehensive companion to John Buchan's mystery fiction includes entries on the characters, novels, short fiction, films, themes, and symbols that readers need to know. Special attention is paid to the serialized secret agent Richard Hannay, Buchan
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Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 66.27 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: David Jarrett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 59.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Author: David Peters Corbett
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
Size: 22.89 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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This ground-breaking book re-conceptualises the history of English painting from 1914 to the end of the 1920s. Whereas most accounts of the period have tended to see English art as marked by a tension between the native tradition and Modernism.
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Author: John Harding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 50.12 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Illustrators
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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This is a biography of the influential poet and illustrator, Ralph Hodgson. Profusely illustrated with many of Hodgson's original cartoons and line-drawings, the book is sure to capture yet another generation of readers for Hodgson's timeless verse.