Book contents
- The British Novel of Ideas
- The British Novel of Ideas
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Dedication
- Introduction The British Novel of Ideas
- Part I 1850–1900
- Part II 1900–1945
- Chapter 5 The British Novel of Ideas in an International Context
- Chapter 6 H. G. Wells
- Chapter 7 G. K. Chesterton
- Chapter 8 E. M. Forster
- Chapter 9 Aldous Huxley
- Chapter 10 Katharine Burdekin
- Chapter 11 Mulk Raj Anand
- Chapter 12 Storm Jameson
- Part III 1945–1975
- Part IV 1975–Present
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 12 - Storm Jameson
Fascism and Liberalism
from Part II - 1900–1945
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2024
- The British Novel of Ideas
- The British Novel of Ideas
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Dedication
- Introduction The British Novel of Ideas
- Part I 1850–1900
- Part II 1900–1945
- Chapter 5 The British Novel of Ideas in an International Context
- Chapter 6 H. G. Wells
- Chapter 7 G. K. Chesterton
- Chapter 8 E. M. Forster
- Chapter 9 Aldous Huxley
- Chapter 10 Katharine Burdekin
- Chapter 11 Mulk Raj Anand
- Chapter 12 Storm Jameson
- Part III 1945–1975
- Part IV 1975–Present
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Yorkshire novelist Storm Jameson wrote that her work tended to ‘sag beneath my great ideas’, as she fought to reconcile her own frustrations with a world of isms and inconsistencies. This chapter explores In the Second Year (1936) Storm Jameson’s dystopian vision of fascist Britain and what this might look like. Like many of her other novels is waterlogged with dialogues and monologues which seek to unpack and explore the great ideas of the age - modernity; capitalism; materialism; individualism - and the ways in which they inform and underpin the attractions of a particularly British fascism, one fashioned in a crucible of class prejudices, the public school system and growing inequality.
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- The British Novel of IdeasGeorge Eliot to Zadie Smith, pp. 207 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024