QXE-2027 Literature and Modernity Reading List

 

 

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The list below represents a fraction of the critical texts available. There are numerous texts available both online through the library and in hard copy.

 

Cambridge Companions Online

Project Muse

LION

JSTOR

ProQuest

Web of Science

The Library Catalogue

 

A quick way to find the latest and best material is to find a helpful article in the Cambridge Companion Online (if possible) and then scour its bibliography for material that looks relevant. If the article that you are looking for is in a journal, remember that you will have to look for the journal title (rather than the article author or the article title) in the library catalogue or in one of the databases.

 

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Conradiana. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Lackey, M., ‘The Moral Conditions for Genocide in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness’ in College Literature 32.1 (2005). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Niland, Richard, Conrad and History (Oxford: OUP, 2010)

Rubery, Matthew, ‘Joseph Conrad’s “wild story of a journalist”’ in ELH 71.3 (2004): 751-774. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Simmons, Allan, et al (eds), Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge: CUP, 2012)

Stape, J. H., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge, CUP, 1996). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Wollaeger, Mark A., Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism (Stanford, California: Stanford UP, 1990)

 

W.B. Yeats, Poems

Brown, Terence, The Life of W. B. Yeats (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2001)

Ellmann, Richard, The Identity of Yeats (London: Faber and Faber, 1984)

Foster, Roy, W.B. Yeats: a Life (Oxford: OUP, 1997)

Howes, Marjorie, and John Kelly, The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge, CUP, 2006). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

North, Michael, The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound (Cambridge: CUP, 2009)

Jeffares, A. Norman, A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1984)

Pierce, David, W. B. Yeats: a Guide through the Critical Maze (Bristol: Bristol Press, 1989)

Unterecker, John, A Reader’s Guide to W. B. Yeats (Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1996)

Vendler, Helen, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (Oxford: OUP, 2007)

Yeats Eliot Review, AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

 

J.M. Synge, Playboy of the Western World

Daniel Casey (ed.), Critical Essays on J.M. Synge (New York, J.K. Hall, 1994)

Adrian Frazier, ‘The Ideology of the Abbey Theatre’, in Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 33-46.  AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Nicolas Grene (ed.), Interpreting Synge (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2000)

Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland: the Literature of the Modern Nation (chapter) (London: Vintage, 1996)

Declan Kiberd, Synge and the Irish Language (London: Macmillan, 1993)

David M. Kiely, J.M. Synge: a Biography (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1994)

Mary C. King, ‘J.M. Synge, ‘national’ drama and the post-Protestant imagination’, in Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 79-92.  AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

P.J. Mathews, The Cambridge Companion to J.M. Synge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Stephen Watt, ‘Late nineteenth-century Irish Theatre: before the Abbey and beyond’, in Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 18-32.  AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

 

T.S. Eliot, Poems

Ackroyd, Peter, T. S. Eliot (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984).

Asher, Kenneth , T. S. Eliot and Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Chinitz, David, T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).

Chinitz, David, A Companion to T. S. Eliot (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Churchill, Suzanne W., ‘Outing T. S. Eliot’, Criticism 47 (2005): 7-30.  AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Constable, John, ‘I. A. Richards, T. S. Eliot, and the Poetry of Belief’, Essays in Criticism 4 (1990): 222-43. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Cooper, John Xiros, T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of ‘Four Quartets’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).    

Crawford, Robert, The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987)

Davidson, Harriet (ed.), T. S. Eliot (Harlow: Longman, 1999).

Ellis, Steve, The English Eliot: Design, Language and Landscape in ‘Four Quartets’ (London: Routledge, 1991).

Ellmann, Maud, The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987).

Esty, Jed , A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

Gordon, Lyndall, The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot (London: Vintage, 2012).

Gray, Piers, T. S. Eliot’s Intellectual and Poetic Development 1908-1922 (Sussex; Harvester, 1982).

Harding, Jason, The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-war Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Hauck, Christina, ‘Abortion and the Individual Talent’, ELH 70 (2003): 223-66. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Kaiser, Jo Ellen Green, ‘Disciplining The Waste Land; or, How to Lead Critics into Temptation’, Twentieth Century Literature 44 (1998): 82-99. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Kenner, Hugh, The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot (London: W. H. Allen, 1960).

Kojecký, Roger, T. S. Eliot’s Social Criticism (London: Faber, 1971).

Laity, Cassandra and Nancy K. Gish (ed), Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Moody, A. David, The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (Cambridge, CUP, 1994). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Rainey, Lawrence, Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).

Ricks, Christopher , T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (London: Faber, 1988). 

Schuchard, Ronald, Eliot’s Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Tate, Allen (ed.), T. S. Eliot: the Man and His Work (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1971)

Yeats Eliot Review, AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

 

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

Allen, Judith, Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010)

Dibattista, Maria, ‘Virginia Woolf’ in Adrian Poole, ed., The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (Cambridge, CUP, 2009). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Goldman, Jane, The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: CUP, 1998)

Koppen, R. S., Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2011)

Linett, Maren, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers (Cambridge: CUP, 2010). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Park, S. S, ‘Suffrage and Virginia Woolf: “the mass behind the single voice”’: Review of English Studies 56.223 (2005): pp. 119-34. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Roe, Sue and Susan Sellers, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: CUP, 2000). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Saariluoma, L, ‘Virgina Woolf’s The Years: identity and time in an anti-family novel’ in Orbis Litterarum 54.4 (1999): pp. 276-300. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Sellers, Susan, The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf: Second Edition (Cambridge: CUP, 2010). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Snaith, Anna (ed.), Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007)

Whitworth, Michael, Virginia Woolf (Oxford: OUP, 2005)

 

 

Section 2: 1930-52

George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

Beadle, Gordon B., ‘George Orwell’s Literary Studies of Poverty in England’ in Twentieth Century Literature 24.2 (1978): pp. 188-201. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Clarke, B, Orwell in Context: communities, myths, values (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Clarke, B, ‘“Noble Bodies”: Orwell, Miners, and Masculinity’ in English Studies 89.4 (2008): pp. 427-46. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Clarke, B, ‘Orwell and Englishness’ in Review of English Studies 57.228 (2006): pp. 83-105. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Davison, Peter, Orwell’s England: the road to Wigan Pier (London: Penguin, 2001).

Hart, Matthew, ‘Regionalism in English Fiction between the wars’ in Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry [some paragraphs] (Cambridge, CUP, 2007). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Karpinski, E. C, ‘En-trenched manhood – war and constructions of masculinity in George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia’ in Men and Masculinities 10.5 (2008): pp. 523-37. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Levenson, Michael, The fictional realist: novels of the 1930s’ in John Rodden, ed., The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (Cambridge, CUP, 2007). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Lucas, S, Orwell (London: Haus, 2003).

Norris, C, ed., Inside the Myth: Orwell: views from the left (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1984).

Pawling, C, ‘George Orwell and the Documentary in the Thirties’ in Literature and History 4 (1976): pp. 81-93. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Pearce, R, ‘Revisiting Orwell’s Wigan Pier’ in History 82.267 (1997): 410-28. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Rodden, John, ed., The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (Cambridge, CUP, 2007). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Sabin, Margery, ‘The truths of experience: Orwell’s nonfiction of the 1930s’ in John Rodden, ed., The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (Cambridge, CUP, 2007). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Smith, M, ‘George Orwell, War and Politics in the 1930s’ in Literature and History 6.2 (1980): pp. 219-34. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

 

Jean Rhys, Voyage into the Dark

Brown, J. D, ‘Textual Entanglement: Jean Rhys’s Critical Discourse’ in Modern Fiction Studies 56.3 (2010): pp. 568-91. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Delany, P, ‘Jean Rhys and Ford Madox Ford: what really happened’ in Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature 16.4 (1983): pp. 15-24. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Emery, M. L, ‘The Politics of Form: Jean Rhys’ Social Vision in Voyage in the Dark and Wide Sargasso Sea’ in Twentieth Century Literature 28.4 (1982): pp. 418-30. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Gilson, A, ‘Internalizing mastery: Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, and the fiction of autobiography’ in Modern Fiction Studies 50.3 (2004): pp. 632-56. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Gogwilt, Chris, ‘The interior: Benjaminian arcades, Conradian passages, and the “impasse” of Jean Rhys’ in Andrew Thacker and Peter Brooker (eds.), Geographies of Modernism (2005): pp. 65-75.

Kloepfer, D. K, ‘Voyage in the Dark: Jean Rhys’ Masquerade for the Mother’ in Contemporary Literature 26.4 (1985): pp. 443-59. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Linett, Maren, ‘“New words, new everything”: fragmentation and trauma in Jean Rhys’ in Twentieth Century Literature 51.4 (2005): pp. 437-66. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Nardin, J, ‘“As soon as I start I sober up again”: alcohol and will in Jean Rhys’s pre-war novels’ in Papers on Language and Literature 42.1 (2006): pp. 46-72. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Radford, Jean, ‘Race and Ethnicity in White Women’s Modernist Literature’ in Maren Tova Linett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers (Cambridge: CUP, 2010). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Savory, Elaine, Jean Rhys (Cambridge: CUP, 1998) [esp. Chapter 4 on Voyage in the Dark]. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Smith, Anna, ‘“A Savage from the Cannibal Islands”: Jean Rhys and London’ in Thacker, Andrew, and Peter Brooker (eds.), Geographies of Modernism (2005): pp. 76-85.

Zimring, Z, ‘The Make-Up of Jean Rhys’s Fiction’ in Novel: a forum on fiction 33.2 (2000): pp. 212-34. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

 

W.H. Auden, Poems

Heaney, Seamus, ‘Sounding Auden’ in Finders Keepers: Selected Prose (London: Faber, 2002): pp. 191-201.

Kirsch, A, ‘“Our Grief is not Greek”: Auden’s Poems on War’ in Yale Review 96.4 (2008): pp. 32-55. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Mendelson, Edward, ‘W.H. Auden’ in Claude Rawson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge, CUP, 2011). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Mendelson, E, ‘Auden-Isherwood Collaboration’ in Twentieth Century Literature 22.3 (1976): pp. 276-85. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Murphy, M, ‘Neoclassicism, late modernism, and W.H. Auden’s “New Year Letter”’ in Cambridge Quarterly 33.2 (2004): pp. 101-18. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

O’Neill, Michael, ‘The 1930s Poetry of W.H. Auden’ in Neil Corcoran, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (Cambridge, CUP, 2007). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Page, N, Auden and Isherwood: the Berlin Years (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998).

Quipp, E, ‘“Versions of an Intimate Relation”: difficulty and lightness in the thirties Auden’ in Orbis Litterarum 64.4: pp. 300-23. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Robinson, P, ‘Making Things Happen (the Poetry of W.H. Auden) in Cambridge Quarterly 29.3 (2000): pp. 237-66. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Smith, Stan, ed., The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden (Cambridge, CUP, 2005). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Smith, S, ‘The Dating of Auden’s “Who Will Endure” and the Politics of 1931’ in Review of English Studies 41.163 (1990): pp. 351-62. AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

 

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood and Poems

Ackerman, John, Dylan Thomas: his Life and Work (London: Macmillan, 1991)

Goodby, John, Under the Spelling Wall (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2014)

Goodby, John and Wigginton, Chris, eds, Dylan Thomas: New Casebooks (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2001)

Jones, Glyn, [chapter in] The Dragon Has Two Tongues London: Dent, 1968)

Maud, R. N., Entrances to Dylan Thomas’s Poetry (London: Scorpion P, 1963)

Walford Davies, ed., Dylan Thomas: New Critical Essays (London: Dent, 1972)

Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas (Cardiff: U of Wales P, 2014)

Williams, Raymond, ‘Dylan Thomas’s Play for Voices’, Critical Quarterly 1 (1959) AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Various articles in Welsh Writing in English [in journals in the stacks]

 

Lynette Roberts, war poems and prose

Conran, ‘Lynette Robert: War Poet’ in The Cost of Strangeness: Essays on the English Poets of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer Press, 1982), pp. 188-202.

Conran, Tony, in Frontiers in Anglo-Welsh Poetry (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997), pp. 163-76.

Conran, Tony, Lynette Roberts: war poet’ in Anglo-Welsh Review 65 (1979): pp. 50-62.

McGuiness, Patrick, ‘Frostwork’ in New Welsh Review 62 (2003): pp. 5-19.

McGuiness, Patrick, ‘Introduction” in Lynette Roberts, Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet, 2005) pp. xi-xxxix.

Pikoulis, John, ‘The Poetry of the Second World War’ in Gary Day and Brian Docherty (eds), British Poetry 1900-50: Aspects of Tradition (London: St Martin’s Press, 1995): pp. 193-207.

Roberts, Lynette, Diaries, Letters and Recollections (Manchester: Carcanet, 2008).

Wheale, Nigel, ‘Beyond the Trauma Status: Lynette Roberts’ Gods with Stainless Ears and the Post-War Cultural Landscape’ in Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 3 (1997): pp. 98-117.

Wheale, Nigel ‘Lynette Roberts: legend and form in the 1940s’ in Critical Quarterly 36.3 (1994): pp. 4-19.

Wilkinson, John, ‘The Brain’s Tent’ in The Boston Review, September/October 2006. http://bostonreview.net/BR31.5/wilkinson.php

Wynn Thomas, M, ‘R. S. Thomas and Modern Welsh Poetry’ [some paragraphs] in Neil Corcoran, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (Cambridge, CUP, 2007). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

 

 

 

General background reading

 

1900s-20s

Ardis, Ann L., Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922 (Cambridge: CUP, 2002)

Armstrong, Tim, Modernism: a cultural history [especially Chapter 4, pp. 64-89] (Cambridge. Polity P, 2005).

Ayers, David, English Literature of the 1920s (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1999)

Begam, Richard, and Michael Valdez Moses (eds.), Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature 1899-1939 (Durham: Duke UP, 2007)

Berman, Marshall, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: the experience of modernity (London: Verso, 1983)

Bell, Michael, Literature, Modernism and Myth: belief and responsibility in the twentieth century (Cambridge: CUP, 1997)

Bergonzi, Bernard, The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth-Century Literature (Brighton: Harvester, 1986)

Bradbury, Malcolm,  and James MacFarlane, Modernism 1890-1930 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976)

Bradshaw, David (ed.), A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Malden, MA.: Blackwell, 2006)

Brooker, Peter (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Oxford: OUP, 2010)

Childs, Peter, Modernism (London: Routledge, 2008)

Daly, Nicholas, Literature, Technology, and Modernity 1860-2000 (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)

Davis, Alex, and Lee M. Jenkins eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (Cambridge: CUP, 2007) AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Esty, Jed, A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2004)

Kime Scott, Bonnie, Refiguring Modernism (Bloomington: Indians University Press, 1995)

Levenson, Michael (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge: CUP, 1999) AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Levenson, Michael, A Genealogy of Modernism: a Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)

Miller, Andrew, Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty (London: Routledge, 2007).

Nicholls, Peter, Modernisms: a Literary Guide (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

North, Michael, The Dialect of Modernism: race, language and twentieth-century literature (New York: OUP, 1994)

North, Michael, Reading 1922: a return to the scene of the modern (New York: OUP, 1999)

Potter, Rachel (2006), Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Potter, Rachel, Modernist Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012).

Punter, David, Modernity (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

Rainey, Lawrence, Institutions of Modernism: literary elites and public culture (New Haven: Yale UP, 1998)

Shiach, Morag, Modernism, labour and selfhood in British literature and culture (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)

Shiach, Morag, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel (Cambridge, CUP, 2007). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Tova Linett, Maren (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers (Cambridge: CUP, 2010) AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Tratner, Michael, Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995).

Trotter, David, Cinema and Modernism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)

Williams, Raymond, The Politics of Modernism: against the new conformists (London: Verso, 2007)

 

General: 1930-50s

Bergonzi, B, Reading the Thirties: texts and contexts (London: Macmillan, 1978).

Caserio, R, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel (Cambridge, CUP, 2009). AVAILABLE ONLINE THROUGH LIBRARY

Clark, J, et al, eds., Culture and Crisis in Britain in the Thirties (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1979).

Cunningham, V, British Writers of the Thirties (Oxford: OUP, 1988).

Joannou, M, ed., Women Writers of the 1930s: gender, politics and history (Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 1999).

Light, A, Forever England: feminism, literature and conservatism between the wars (London: Routledge, 1991)

Lucas, John, ed., The 1930s: a Challenge to Orthodoxy (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1978)

Mackay, M, and Lyndsey Stonebridge, eds., British Fiction After Modernism: the novel at mid-century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Maslen, E, Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction 1928-1968 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).

Montefiore, Janet, Men and Women Writers of the Thirties: the dangerous flood of history (London: Routledge, 1996).

Page, N, The Thirties in Britain (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990).

Poster, Jem, The Thirties Poets (Buckingham, Open UP, 1993).

Quinn, P, ed., Recharting the Thirties (London: Susquehanna P, 1996).

Rossen, J, Writers of the Old School: British Novelists of the 1930s (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992).

Spender, Stephen, The Thirties and After: poetry, politics, people (London: Macmillan, 1978).

Symons, J, The Thirties: a dream revolved (London: Cresset, 1960).

Williams, K, and Steven Matthews, eds., Rewriting the Thirties: modernism and after (London: Longman, 1997).