ABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is to present some reflections on two books by Walter Greenwood – Love on the Dole, his first novel published in 1933 and There was a Time, his autobiography, published in 1967.1 These reflections will have two aims. They will first try to pinpoint and clarify certain theoretical questions concerning the relationship between cultural studies and literary criticism. Also they will offer some observations on the nature of Greenwood’s work itself and its place in an understanding of the 1920s and 1930s.
