Browsing School of Humanities by Subject "1930s"
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Poetry and The Listener: the myth of the ‘Middlebrow’
(Article)The article looks at poetry published in The Listener and re-evaluates histories of literature in the 1930s -
Star Adaptations: Queen Biopics of the 1930s
(Book chapter)This chapter draws on press books and marketing materials of the 1930 to demonstrate how stars were both exploited and adapted into 'queen biopics', beginning with the case of Greta Garbo and concluding with Norma Shearer. -
Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism: The Genesis of The Years, Three Guineas and Between the Acts
(Book)After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with overt social and political commentary in her later writings, which are preoccupied with dissecting the links ... -
Women Poets and the Political Voice
(Book chapter)This chapter demonstrates how women wrote left-wing poetry, often in traditional forms. They also wrote about inequalities of class and gender.