Intermodernism: literary culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain

Acknowledgements

Introduction: What is Intermodernism? / Kristin Bluemel

Part I. Work

1. A Cassandra with Clout: Storm Jameson, Little Englander and Good European / Elizabeth Maslen

2. Englands Ancient and Modern: Sylvia Townsend Warner, T. H. White and the Fictions of Medieval Englishness / Janet Montefiore

3. 'A Strange Field': Region and Class in the Novels of Harold Heslop / John Fordbam

Part II. Community

4. Stella Gibbons, Ex-Centricity and the Suburb / Faye Hammill

5. Intermodern Travel: J. B. Priestley's English and American Journeys / Lisa Colletta

Part III. War

6. Under Suspicion: The Plotting of Britain in World War II Detective Spy Fiction / Phyllis Lassner

7. Trials and Errors: The Heat of the Day and Postwar Culpability / Allan Hepburn

8. Rebecca West's Palimpsestic Praxis: Crafting the Intermodern Voice of Witness / Debra Rae Cohen

Part IV. Documents

9. The Intermodem Assumption of the Future: William Empson, Charles Madge and Mass-Observation / Nick Hubble

10. 'The creative treatment of actuality': John Grierson, Documentary Cinema and 'Fact' in the 1930s / Laura Marcus

Appendix: Who are the Intermodernists?

Select Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index