Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939

Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal the New Statesman. This book argues that New Statesman fiction advances a strong realist preoccupation with ordinary, everyday life, and shows how British domestic concerns have a strong hold on the working-class and lower-middle-class imaginative output of this period.

Bashir Abu-Manneh is assistant professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction Realism and Class	p. xi
Realism	p. xii
Interwar Class	p. xxi
Origins and Foundational Patterns 1913-14	p. 1
Origins	p. 1
Realities of the City	p. 9
Dreams of the Country	p. 22
Romantic Ruralism and Realist Urbanism	p. 29
Working-Class Emergence: 1926 and R. M. Fox	p. 43
Arnold Bennett and the General Strike	p. 47
Smells, Threats, Rumblings, Accidents, and Suppressions	p. 53
R. M. Fox and Working-Class Literature	p. 56
Ruralism Realized: H. E. Bates	p. 71
Late Twenties: Oppression and Desire	p. 75
Thirties Bloom	p. 80
Colonial Anxieties and Hopes 1926-1930: From E. R. Morrough to Winifred Holtby	p. 93
Morrough's Egypt	p. 95
Leslie Mitchell and E. M. Forster on Egypt	p. 105
William Plomer and Winifred Holtby	p. 108
Rise of Modernist Women	p. 121
Late Twenties: Travel and Oppression	p. 123
The Thirties and Stella Benson	p. 129
Soviet Fictions of the Thirties: Bolshevism and Michael Zoshchenko	p. 145
Against Anti-Bolshevism: Understanding Stalin's Russia	p. 146
Michael Zoshchenko's Early Soviet Episodes	p. 153
Elisaveta Fen's Late Thirties Zoshchenko	p. 162
Self-Criticism or Lies?	p. 167
Realism or Documentary in the Thirties: V. S. Pritchett and Peter Chamberlain	p. 181
Pritchett, Foreigner Englishman	p. 181
Chamberlain's Snapshot Documentary	p. 193
Conclusion Realist Relations	p. 203
Bibliography
Primary Sources	p. 211
Secondary Sources	p. 221
Index	p. 239
About the Author	p. 255
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