British Communism and the Politics of Literature, 1928-1939

This book examines the many important literary critics and theorists associated with the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1930s. It provides a systematic and critical account of the communist understanding of the politics of literature and assesses the ways in which Party theorists were influenced by the world communist movement. In particular, it shows that British communists were never content simply to restate Soviet ideas about literature, but always developed them in ways that were innovative and sometimes unorthodox.