Storm Jameson:Fascism and Social Justice

Cooper, Katherine (2024) Storm Jameson:Fascism and Social Justice. In: The British Novel of Ideas. Cambridge University Press, pp. 207-222. ISBN 9781009086745

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	storm jameson,women writers,fascism,world war two,novel of ideas
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Institute for the Study of Ideas of Europe (ISIE) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2024 00:44
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2024 00:44
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98036
DOI:	10.1017/9781009086745.013

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