Novelists Against Social Change: Conservative Popular Fiction, 1920-1960

Novelists Against Social Change: Conservative Popular Fiction, 1920-1960

by Kate Macdonald
Novelists Against Social Change: Conservative Popular Fiction, 1920-1960

Novelists Against Social Change: Conservative Popular Fiction, 1920-1960

by Kate Macdonald

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Overview

Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137457714
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 07/30/2015
Edition description: 1st ed. 2015
Pages: 271
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kate Macdonald teaches British literature and publishing history in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK. She researches twentieth-century British book culture, publishing history and popular reading, on which she has published widely.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Politics and Pleasure in Language
2. From Communism to the Wall Street Crash: Buchan in the 1920s
3. Ex-officers and Gentlemen: Yates in the 1920s
4. Political Uncertainty: Buchan in the 1930s
5. Novels of Instruction: Thirkell in the 1930s
6. Aggressive Reactions: Yates in the 1930s and 1940s
7. Thirkell in Wartime, 1940-45
8. Rewriting History: Yates and Thirkell, 1945-1960
9. Conclusion
Endnotes
Appendix 1: List of works by John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell
Works cited
Index
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