Matthews - Rewriting the Thirties

By Cesar Abin. A caricature of James Joyce which first appeared in the magazine, transition (issue 21, 1932)

Rewriting the Thirties:
Modernism and After

Edited by

Keith Williams and Steven Matthews

First published 1997 by Addison Wesley Longman Limited

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ANDY CROFT has been active for many years in community writing projects on Teeside, where, until recently, he taught literature and creative writing for the University of Leeds. He has published and broadcast widely on the literary history of the Labour Movement, including a study of British novelists and the Popular Front, Red Letter Days (1990), and has edited (with Keith Armstrong) The Big Meeting (1994) and (with Graeme Rigby) the autobigraphy of the Durham miner and novelist Harold Heslop, Out of the Old Earth (1994). His first full-length book of poems, Nowhere Special, was published in 1996. He is currently writing a biography of Randall Swingler.

VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM is a Professor in English Literature and Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has written a study of dissent in Victorian fiction, Everywhere Spoken Against (1975), and edited two volumes of writings on the Spanish Civil War, The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse (1980) and Spanish Front (1986). He is also the author of British Writers of the Thirties (1988), and of a collection of critical essays, In the Reading Gaol: Postmodemity, Texts and History (1993).

SIMON DENTITH is Reader in English at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. He has written on George Eliot, rhetoric, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century topics; his most recent book is an introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin.

LYNETTE HUNTER is a Reader in the School of English at the University of Leeds. She is author of G.K. Chesterton: Explorations in Allegory (1979), George Orwell, the Search for a Voice (1984), Rhetorical Stance in Modem Literature: Allegories of Love and Death (1984), Modem Allegory and Fantasy: Rhetorical Stances of Contemporary Writing (1989) and Towards a Definition of Topos: Approaches to Analogical Reasoning (1991).

PETER MARKS is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Sydney, where he specialises in twentieth-century British literature. He has published essays on George Orwell and imperialism, and on 1930s literary periodicals. He is co-editor of a forthcoming volume, Literature and the Contemporary. Currently, he is working on an extended study of the literary periodical, and on the essays of George Orwell.

PETER MCDONALD is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Louis MacNeice: The Poet in his Contexts (1991), and the co-editor (with Alan Heuser) of MacNeices Selected Plays (1993). He has written widely on twentieth-century poetry, and in particular Irish verse: his work on contemporary poetry includes Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (1997). He has published two volumes of poetry: Biting the Wax (1989) and Adams Dream (1996).

STEVE NICHOLSON taught for four years in the Workshop Theatre at the University of Leeds, and is now Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Huddersfield. He has published a number of articles about British political theatre between 1917 and 1945, on censorship, right-wing dramas, and left-wing writers such as Montagu Slater. He is currently contributing to a major new encyclopaedia of censorship. He has also staged several rarely performed plays from the thirties, including Irwin Shaws Bury the Dead.

JEFFREY RICHARDS is Professor of Culture History at Lancaster University and author of The Age of the Dream Palace (1984), Happiest Days: the Public Schools in English Fiction (1988) and Films and British National Identity (1997).

MARION SHAW is Professor of English in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Loughborough. She has written extensively on nineteenthcentury poetry, and is editor of the