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The English literature of the 1920s is commonly treated in terms of its position within European or Anglo-American Modernism. This book argues that the English literature of the period can be better understood when it is examined in the context of a more local social and literary history. Focusing principally on the novel, this book treats works that are regarded as modernist alongside non-modernist and popular forms, and demonstrates the engagement of these texts with a common context of social concerns, including sexuality, gender and class politics, Englishness, empire, and the cultural pessimism which informed the formation of English as a modern university subject. The book includes major new accounts of the best-known works of the period which challenge received wisdom on these subjects, including studies of D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and E M Forster. These accounts are set in the context of a variety figures who are now becoming better-known to the non-specialist, including Rebecca West, Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley and Sylvia Townsend Warner. The First World War heralded the creation of the modern state and of a modern culture which in its essential outline remains with us. Rejecting a current trend to dismiss modernism as an elitist cultural movement, Ayers argues that the work of this period which most commands our attention remains that which most decisively articulates a critique of the emergence of modernity. The task of the critic is to disengage the utopian moment of works which seek to create a space for difference even where these works are mired in the confusions of contemporary ideology.Concise accounts of the social and political contexts of the 1920sSustained and theoretically sophisticated accounts of key works by D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and E M ForsterExtensive treatment of a selection of other works, including contemporary best-sellersA substantial bibliography

English literature --- Literature and society --- Modernism (Literature) --- Nineteen twenties. --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- History and criticism. --- History

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Russian literature --- Littérature russe --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Nineteen twenties --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- European influences --- History and criticism

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History of North America --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Nineteen thirties --- Nineteen twenties --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- 1930s --- 30s (Twentieth century decade) --- Thirties (Twentieth century decade) --- History --- Etats-Unis --- Histoire --- Amerika --- United States of America

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Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature --- Social problems in literature --- Sociale problemen in de literatuur --- American fiction --- -Nineteen twenties --- 820 <73>-3 --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- History and criticism --- Amerikaanse literatuur: proza --- History and criticism. --- 820 <73>-3 Amerikaanse literatuur: proza --- 20th century --- Lewis, Sinclair --- Criticism and interpretation --- Anderson, Sherwood --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Hemingway, Ernest --- Faulkner, William --- Dos Passos, John --- Literature and society --- West, Nathanael

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History of Europe --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Europa --- Europe --- Guerre mondiale I --- Guerre mondiale II --- Histoire politique --- Jeugd --- Jeunesse --- Politieke geschiedenis --- Wereldoorlog I --- Wereldoorlog II --- Nineteen twenties --- Nineteen thirties --- Années vingt (Vingtième siècle) --- Années trente (Vingtième siècle) --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Politics and government --- History --- Intellectual life --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire --- Vie intellectuelle --- 329 <4> --- 940.5 --- 320.5 --- Politieke partijen. Partijwezen. Partijrecht--Europa --- History Europe (1918 – ) --- Social sciences Political science Ideologies --- 329 <4> Politieke partijen. Partijwezen. Partijrecht--Europa --- Années vingt (Vingtième siècle) --- Années trente (Vingtième siècle) --- Congrès --- 1920s --- 20s (Twentieth century decade) --- Jazz Age --- Roaring twenties --- Twenties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- 1930s --- 30s (Twentieth century decade) --- Thirties (Twentieth century decade) --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Nineteen twenties - Congresses. --- Nineteen thirties - Congresses.