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Chapter 10 - The Regional and the Rural

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2019

By
Kristin Bluemel
Edited by
James Smith
James Smith
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

The outpouring of novels about regional and rural Britain that peaked in the 1930s had as its context a more broadly social cult of the countryside that generated all kinds of extravagant proclamations about the powers of rural life to define an urban nation and global empire. Among the most notorious of these statements was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s toast to members of the Royal Society of St George, a group devoted to advancing English patriotism, at their annual meeting at London’s grand Hotel Cecil on 6 May 1924.

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The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s , pp. 160 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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