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Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain

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Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain book

Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain

DOI link for Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain

Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain book

Edited ByBenjamin Kohlmann
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 29 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315578897
Pages 228 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315578897
SubjectsLanguage & Literature, Politics & International Relations
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Kohlmann, B. (Ed.). (2013). Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315578897

Offering the first book-length consideration of Edward Upward (1903-2009), one of the major British left-wing writers, this collection positions his life and works in the changing artistic, social and political contexts of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Upward’s fiction and non-fiction, from the 1920s onwards, illustrate the thematic and formal richness of left-wing writing during the twentieth-century age of extremes. At the same time, Upward’s work shows the inherent tensions of a life committed at once to writing and to politics. The full range of Upward’s work and a wealth of unpublished materials are examined, including his early fantastic stories of the 1920s, his Marxist fiction of the 1930s, the extraordinary semi-autobiographical trilogy The Spiral Ascent and his formally and thematically innovative later stories. The essays collected here reevaluate Upward’s central place in twentieth-century British literary culture and assess his legacy for the twenty-first century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Writing of the Struggle: An Introduction to Edward Upward’s Life and Works

ByBenjamin Kohlmann

chapter 1|16 pages

Playing Up: Edward Upward in Cambridge and Beyond

ByCharlotte Charteris

chapter 2|18 pages

In the Thirties: Upward, Literature and Politics

ByBen Clarke

chapter 3|16 pages

Modalities of Thirties Writing and Writers: The Case of Edward Upward

ByEdward Upward Valentine Cunningham

chapter 4|14 pages

‘Only degradation and slavery?’: The Figure of the Teacher in the Writing of Edward Upward

BySimon Grimble

chapter 5|16 pages

Radical Eccentricity and Post-war Ordinariness

ByNick Hubble

chapter 6|16 pages

‘History will not always be living here’: Edward Upward’s Comic Historiographies

BySteven Matthews

chapter 7|14 pages

The Post-war Künstlerroman: Edward Upward and Henry Williamson Taking Themselves Seriously

ByMark Rawlinson

chapter 8|16 pages

Upward’s Later Stories, Modernist Intimacy and the Marxist Unmentionable

ByStuart Christie

chapter 9|18 pages

Edward Upward and the Critique of Everyday Late Life

chapter 10|10 pages

‘Walkers, not marchers’: The Scope of Walking in Upward’s Late Fiction

ByRod Mengham

chapter 11|16 pages

Edward Upward’s Remains

ByJoseph Elkanah Rosenberg
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