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03868aam a2200541 i 4500 001 F5584434ECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150422s2015 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015013176 020 $a 1137457716 020 $a 9781137457714 035 $a (OCoLC)907183949 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d CDX $d OCLCO $d COO $d EYM $d YUS $d ZCU $d NLGGC $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR830.P68 $b M33 2015 082 00 $a 823.009/353 $2 23 084 $a FIC019000 $2 bisacsh 084 $a 18.05 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Macdonald, Kate, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Novelists against social change : $b conservative popular fiction, 1920-1960 / $c Kate Macdonald. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a viii, 271 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Novelists Against Social Change shows how the writing of the best-selling novelists John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell expressed their conservative fears and anxieties by politicizing their fiction and characters, from 1920 to 1960. Buchan's focus on national and European politics of the 1920s and 30s was embedded in his trademark adventure fiction for Establishment heroes. Yates's stylistic exuberance decorated his fierce defence of retrogressive social codes with an almost modernist attention to language. Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire social comedies were an elegy to Victorian values and a passionate defence of upper-class civilization as she conceived it. Resisting the threat of change in social class, political action, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced some of their strongest works. This book pays particular attention to Buchan's novels Huntingtower, Castle Gay and A Prince of the Captivity, to Yates's 'Berry' novels and short stories and his thrillers, and Thirkell's wartime and postwar fiction."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 1. Introduction: Politics and Pleasure in Language -- 2. From Communism to the Wall Street Crash: Buchan in the 1920s -- 3. Ex-officers and Gentlemen: Yates in the 1920s -- 4. Political Uncertainty: Buchan in the 1930s -- 5. Novels of Instruction: Thirkell in the 1930s -- 6. Aggressive Reactions: Yates in the 1930s and 1940s -- 7. Thirkell in Wartime, 1940-45 -- 8. Rewriting History: Yates and Thirkell, 1945-1960 -- 9. Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Appendix 1: List of works by John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell -- Works cited -- Index. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Popular literature $z Great Britain $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Conservatism in literature. 650 0 $a Politics and literature $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Literature and history $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a FICTION $x Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Conservatism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875612 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Literature and history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000077 650 7 $a Politics and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069960 650 7 $a Popular literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071405 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 650 7 $a Englisch. $0 (DE-588)4014777-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Konservativismus. $0 (DE-588)7736847-2 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Unterhaltungsroman. $0 (DE-588)4078573-7 $2 gnd 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180118073538.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F5584434ECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search