By Chris Hopkins
ISBN-10: 0826489389
ISBN-13: 9780826489388
Chris Hopkins attracts either on famous texts and on novels that have just recently began to be mentioned via critics of the thirties - fairly these by means of ladies writers whose paintings has nonetheless no longer been similar very essentially to the literary and political debates of the interval. Organised in 5 sections each one concentrating on significant genres, he is taking a variety of novels as case stories and discusses their makes use of of established varieties, concerning them to different examples and to their historic, political and cultural contexts.
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English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History (Continuum Literary Studies) by Chris Hopkins
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