Can I read Reading the Thirties : Texts and Contexts on EtoBox?

Reading the Thirties : Texts and Contexts by Bergonzi, Bernard, 1929- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Reading the Thirties : Texts and Contexts about?

This book is not about all of the literature written in England between 1930 and 1940. In the title, and throughout the book, British literary scholar and critic Bernard Bergonzi uses the term "the thirties" in a deliberately selective fashion. He does not intend "the thirties" to mean just a period, but also to refer generically to a group of writers and the work they produced, mostly in that decade, occasionally later. Indeed, "the thirties" in this sense largely corresponds to what Samuel Hynes calls "the Auden generation." The thirties generation mythologised themselves as they lived and wrote, and the author has long been fascinated by the mythology. His interest is less in extendedly discussing individual authors, or individual texts, than in trying to read the thirties as a collective subject, even a collective text. The approach involves certain departures from the familiar methods and assumptions of English criticism, and not all of this book can be called literary criticism, though all of it stays close to literary texts. Where it is not criticism it moves towards cultural history and the sociology of literature, although the author should like to think that all three app

Author

Bergonzi, Bernard, 1929-

Publisher

(Pittsburgh): University of Pittsburgh Press

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822911357

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities