Modernism in the arts, and particularly literature, has often been portrayed as a middle class pursuit, with certain literary critics focusing on the ‘elitism’ of the movement. But does this give a true picture of its social composition?This week, Tom Overton talks to Nick Hubble about their new book The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (https://euppublishingblog.com/2017/09/07/proletarian-modernism/), and about how the General Strike of 1926 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/writing-the-1926-general-strike/41A4BEF1FB2C099EEEFD60A5F14C0B80), the Equal Franchise Act 1928 and the Great Depression shaped working class forms of modernism during the 1930s.(Cover image: 'Acetylene Wielding' (1917) by C.R.W. Nevinson)SELECTED REFERENCESW. H. AudenOctavia ButlerLEWIS CARROLL, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (1865)Chung Ling Soo (magician)T. S. EliotWILLIAM EMPSON, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Types_of_AmbiguityEMPSON, Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) – https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/empson-style-from-despairFord Madox FordJOHN GAY, The Beggar’s Opera (1728)Lewis Grassic Gibbon – https://www.grassicgibbon.comWALTER GREENWOOD, Love on the Dole (1933) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIPubjjouaAJ. B. S. Haldane – https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/makers-of-modern-genetics/digitised-archives/j-b-s-haldaneRichard HoggartNICK HUBBLE, 'Proletarian Autofiction of the 1930s' (2019) - https://socialhumanities.home.blog/2019/03/10/proletarian-autobiografiction-of-the-1930sSAMUEL HYNES, The Auden Generation (1976) – https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-auden-generation-by-samuel-hynes/JAMES JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916); Ulysses (1922)D. H. LAWRENCE, ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ (1909) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odour_of_ChrysanthemumsD. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)Doris LessingMARGARET LLEWELLYN DAVIES (ed.), Life as We Have Known It (1930) – https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=4294981756Charles Madge – http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/collection_descriptions/madge.htmlMass Observation – https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/11/surveillance-societyNAOMI MITCHISON, We Have Been Warned (1935) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_MitchisonBILL NAUGHTON, Alfie (1963) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/dec/06/thebestevernovelformFriedrich NietzscheGEORGE ORWELL, The Road to Wigan Pier (1936); Homage to Catalonia (1938)GEORGE ORWELL, ‘The Writer in the Witness Box’ (1940) – https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-proletarian-writerAlan PartridgeJackson PollockProletkultAnn QuinKarl Radek – https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htmLorna SageStephen SpenderAgnes Smith – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2082201.An_Edge_of_the_ForestJOHN SOMMERFIELD, May Day (1936) – http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/njes/article/view/1262August StrindbergEdward Upward – http://www.edwardupward.info/H. G. WellsELLEN WILKINSON, Clash (1929) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_(novel)Raymond WilliamsVIRGINIA WOOLF, Mrs. Dalloway (1925); Orlando (1928); The Years (1936); Three Guineas (1938)