Writing the 1926 General Strike
Literature, Culture, Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19903330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Ferrall (Victoria University of Wellington), Dougal Mcneill (0000-0003-0049-1770, Victoria University of Wellington) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Writing the 1926 General Strike (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781316163771 |
| OpenAlex | W4253806206 |
| ISBN | 9781316163771 |
| Open Library | OL34511296M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill's book analyses the vast literary response to the 1926 General Strike. The Strike not only drew writers into political action but inspired literature that served to shape twentieth-century British views of class, culture and politics. While major figures active at the time wrote on or responded to this crucial moment, this is the first volume to address their respective works. Ferrall and McNeill show how novels then in progress, such as Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, were affected by the Strike, as well as the ways in which it has been remembered from the 1930s to the present. Their study sheds new light on the relationship between politics and literature of the modernist era
Action (physics) · Art · Art history · Literature · Political action · Political science · Politics · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Political and Economic history of UK and US · 1926 · 20th century · English fiction · English fiction, history and criticism · English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · European · General Strike · General Strike (Great Britain : 1926) in literature · General Strike, in literature · Great britain · History and criticism · Literary Criticism · Politics and literature
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |