Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317897560
The first in a three-volume sequence, this book covers the period between 1900 and 1929, providing a perceptive and thorough analysis of British literature within its historical, cultural and artistic context. It identifies the crucial, interwoven relationships between literature and the visual arts, modern poetry, popular fiction, journalism, cinema, music and radio. Much factual detail and a literary chronology guide the reader through the text.
Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 1993
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780582077508
Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
This is a three-volume sequence exploring key aspects of British culture from 1900 to the present, including essays on the novel, poetry, drama, popular fiction, cinema, radio and the press. When complete it will provide students of English and cultural studies, and cultural history, with a unique survey of the interrelationship of literature and other forms of cultural production in modern British society.
Author : C. Bloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230583873
This essential guide, now available in a fully updated new edition, is the only available study of all bestselling books, authors and genres since the start of the last century, giving an unique insight into a hundred years of publishing and reading and taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.
Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3030791548
This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK. This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading including the rise of Black, Asian and LGBTQIA+ publishing; the continuing importance of certain genres and up to date trends in publishing, bookselling, library borrowing and literacy. There are sections on writing for children, on the importance of audiobooks and book clubs, self- published bestsellers as well as many new entries to the present day including bestselling authors such as David Walliams, Peter James, George R R Martin and far less well known authors whose books s sell in their thousands. This is the essential guide to best-selling books, authors, genres, publishing and bookselling since 1900, providing a unique insight into more than a century of entertainment, and opening a window into the reading habits and social life of the British from the death of Queen Victoria to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Author : Christine Grandy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1526111209
This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s. Departing from a prevailing emphasis on popular culture as escapist, Christine Grandy offers a fresh perspective by noting the enduring importance of class and gender divisions in the narratives read and watched by the working and middle classes between the wars. This compelling study ties contemporary concerns about ex-soldiers, profiteers, and working and voting women to the heroes, villains and love-interests that dominated a range of films and novels. Heroes and happy endings further considers the state’s role in shaping the content of popular narratives through censorship. An important and highly readable work for scholars and students interested in cultural and social history, as well as media and film studies, this book is sure to shift our understanding of the role of mass culture in the 1920s and 1930s.
Author : David Loades
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4319 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1000144364
The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Author : I. Habermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2010-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230277497
This study explores Englishness as a 'symbolic form' from the 1920s to the 1940s. Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier, explore crucial ways in which popular 'middlebrow' authors imagine and shape the nation, providing an innovative approach to literary negotiations of cultural identity.
Author : Jorn Weingartner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 085771063X
In 1834, Lord Melbourne spoke the words that epitomised the British government's attitude towards its own involvement in the arts: 'God help the minister that meddles with Art'. However, with the outbreak of World War II, that attitude changed dramatically when 'cultural policy' became a key element of the domestic front. Not only a propaganda tool, it aimed to boost morale and prevent a wartime cultural blackout. "The Arts as a Weapon of War" traces the evolution of this policy from the creation of the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, in 1939, to the drafting of the Arts Council's constitution in 1945. From the improvement of the National Gallery to Myra Hess' legendary concerts during the blitz, Jorn Weingartner provides a fascinating account of the powerful policy shift that laid the foundations for the modern relationship between government and the arts.
Author : K. Curran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137444355
This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture, and encompasses figures such as Philip Larkin, John Lennon and Stephen Patrick Morrissey.
