Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain PDF
Edited by Benjamin Kohlmann
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Offering the first book-length consideration of Edward Upward (1903-2009), one of the major British left-wing writers, this collection positions his life and works in the changing artistic, social and political contexts of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Upward's fiction and non-fiction, from the 1920s onwards, illustrate the thematic and formal richness of left-wing writing during the twentieth-century age of extremes.
At the same time, Upward's work shows the inherent tensions of a life committed at once to writing and to politics.
The full range of Upward's work and a wealth of unpublished materials are examined, including his early fantastic stories of the 1920s, his Marxist fiction of the 1930s, the extraordinary semi-autobiographical trilogy The Spiral Ascent and his formally and thematically innovative later stories.
The essays collected here reevaluate Upward's central place in twentieth-century British literary culture and assess his legacy for the twenty-first century.
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- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:29/04/2016
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- ISBN:9781317145660
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:29/04/2016
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- ISBN:9781317145660
