Literature of the 1930s: Border Country

The writing of the 1930s is filled with a sense of being caught between, whether it was between two world wars, different generations, modernism and realism, the middle class and the working class, local and national cultures, or national and international politics. During this decade, British literature engaged more overtly with radical politics than ever before or since, and it tested the uses and limits of difficulty, encryption, and the legacy of modernism in unprecedented ways. This volume revisits the 1930s and relates its preoccupations to popular culture and international debates, from middlebrow tastes to avant-garde experimentation, all while acknowledging regional influences and the role of gender.