
London Writing of the 1930s
Anna Cottrell(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 31. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-4744-2565-0 (ISBN)
Description
London Writing in the 1930s offers a new perspective on the decade that has long been associated with the Auden generation and the rise of documentary. It argues for the centrality of urban fiction and photography to the decade's experiments in representing daily life. Why the period's London-set novels were so often described as 'photographic', and what kind of photographs inspired such comparisons? Tracing representations of London by a wide range of 1930s writers and photographers, including Patrick Hamilton, Jean Rhys, George Orwell, and Bill Brandt, the book's chapters are organised around London's spaces of leisure. Teashops, cinemas, and the night clubs of Soho were central to 1930s negotiations of the interrelation between urban life, gender, and class; these settings provide this book both with cultural-historical context and with the basis for its argument about the decade's aesthetic orientations.
Reviews / Votes
Anna Cottrell's London Writing of the 1930s is a superb and timely volume. In tracing how literature portrayed modern, city-dwelling young women - from their pleasures in the cinema to their nights out in Soho - Cottrell shows the complexity of writers such as Patrick Hamilton and Storm Jameson, and this volume thus becomes a vital part in the current rethinking of 'the thirties'. * Leo Mellor, University of Cambridge *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
11 B/W illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-2565-0 (9781474425650)
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Person
Dr Anna Cottrell writes about mid-twentieth-century and contemporary British literature and urban culture.
Content
Introduction; Chapter 1: Out on the Town: Fiction and Photographs of the West; Chapter 2: Soho Nights; Chapter 3: Eating Out; Chapter 4: Going to the Cinema; Chapter 5: Staying Home; Conclusion.