This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.

Through a wide-ranging selection of essays representing a variety of different media, national contexts and critical approaches, this volume provides a broad ov

Form vs. content, aesthetics vs. politics, modernism vs. realism: these entrenched binaries tend to structure work in early 20th century literary studies even a

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond