Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics by Charles Ferral

Description: Writing the 1926 General Strike by Charles Ferrall, Dougal McNeill This book analyses the literary response to the 1926 General Strike. The Strike not only drew writers into political action but inspired literature that shaped twentieth-century British views of class, culture, and politics. This study sheds new light on the relationship between politics and literature of the modernist era. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeills book analyses the vast literary response to the 1926 General Strike. The Strike not only drew writers into political action but inspired literature that served to shape twentieth-century British views of class, culture and politics. While major figures active at the time wrote on or responded to this crucial moment, this is the first volume to address their respective works. Ferrall and McNeill show how novels then in progress, such as Virginia Woolfs To the Lighthouse and D. H. Lawrences Lady Chatterleys Lover, were affected by the Strike, as well as the ways in which it has been remembered from the 1930s to the present. Their study sheds new light on the relationship between politics and literature of the modernist era. Author Biography Charles Ferrall is Senior Lecturer in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Amongst the books he has published are Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics and Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850–1950, co-authored with Anna Jackson. Dougal McNeill is Lecturer in the English Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of Forecasts of the Past: Globalisation, History, Realism, Utopia and has edited special issues of the International Journal of Scottish Literature and the Journal of New Zealand Literature. Table of Contents 1. St George and the beast: conservative responses to the Strike; 2. The aesthetic fix: Wells, Chesterton, Bennett; 3. In the middle way: Bloomsbury and the General Strike; 4. Lady Chatterley and the end of the world; 5. Poshcrats and the orphan class: the Auden circle in the General Strike; 6. The General Strike and Scottish modernism; 7. The education of desire: labour college radicals, the General Strike and the impossible bildungsroman; 8. Remembering 1926: working-class Welsh modernisms. Review This is an exemplary book which does exactly what it says on the tin … an excellent work of literary analysis and an even better demonstration of the continuing richness of Marxist scholarship. Bob Light, International Socialism… Writing the 1926 General Strike should be commended for the intricacy and persuasiveness of its arguments. Ferrall and McNeill succeed in the impressive task of making sense of a wealth of material while faithfully resist[ing] the temptation to homogenise, to press the wayward material of the writing of the General Strike into one stable story and moral fable … A reader of this work can be assured to come away with a much more subtle understanding of this seminal event, which has suffered the ignominy of transformation into one of the signifiers of a particular comforting narrative of Englishness and English history … Mika Vale, Critical Quarterly… Ferrall and McNeills book offers a captivating reading of a single historical event: the nine-day national strike of 1926, which the authors scrutinize as a benchmark in British political thought between the wars. … a vital resource not only for understanding the conflicted literary history of British labour in the 1920s and after, but also for writing literary history more generally. The Years Work in English Studies Promotional This book analyses the literary response to the 1926 General Strike and sheds light on the relationship between modernist politics and literature. Review Quote "This is an exemplary book which does exactly what it says on the tin ... an excellent work of literary analysis and an even better demonstration of the continuing richness of Marxist scholarship." Bob Light, International Socialism Promotional "Headline" This book analyses the literary response to the 1926 General Strike and sheds light on the relationship between modernist politics and literature. Description for Bookstore This book analyses the literary response to the 1926 General Strike. The Strike not only drew writers into political action but inspired literature that shaped twentieth-century British views of class, culture, and politics. This study sheds new light on the relationship between politics and literature of the modernist era. Description for Library This book analyses the literary response to the 1926 General Strike. The Strike not only drew writers into political action but inspired literature that shaped twentieth-century British views of class, culture, and politics. This study sheds new light on the relationship between politics and literature of the modernist era. Details ISBN1107100038 Author Dougal McNeill Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2015 ISBN-10 1107100038 ISBN-13 9781107100039 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Literature, Culture, Politics Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 820.935841083 Media Book Pages 236 Publication Date 2015-02-19 Short Title WRITING THE 1926 GENERAL STRIK Language English UK Release Date 2015-02-19 AU Release Date 2015-02-19 NZ Release Date 2015-02-19 Alternative 9781316163771 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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