Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel: Oblique Strategies

by Julia Jordan

In the decades following the immediately postwar period in Britain, a loose grouping of experimental writers that included Alan Burns, Christine Brooke-Rose, B. S. Johnson, and Ann Quin worked against the dominance, as they saw it, of the realist novel of the literary mainstream. Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel reassesses the experimentalism versus realism debates of the period, and finds a body of work engaged with, rather than merely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198857284
• ISBN13: 9780198857280
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"