Elinor Taylor, Ph.D. (2014), University of Salford, is currently a lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. She is the author of several articles on Communist writers.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Popular Front
Culture, Crisis and Democracy
The Popular Front Novel
1 Anti-Fascist Aesthetics in International Context
Socialist Realism
British Developments
Language, Form and Popularity
Ralph Fox's Realism
Conclusion
2 John Sommerfield, May Day (1936)
John Sommerfield: Literature and Activism
Vox Populi and Bird's Eye
Montage and Memory
Myth and Tradition
Conclusion
3 Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky (1937)
Bathos and Narrative Convention
Failures of Articulation
Conclusion
4 History and the Historical Novel
British Communists and English History
The Historical Novel of the Popular Front
Jack Lindsay's English Trilogy
Conclusion
5 James Barke and the National Turn
The National Turn (I): British Questions
The National Turn (II): Critical Voices
'There is no Scottish National Question'
James Barke, Major Operation (1936)
James Barke, The Land of the Leal (1939)
Conclusion
6 Lewis Jones's Fiction
Shame, Vision and Reification
Forms and Modes
Spain and Home
Conclusion
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index