Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: What is Intermodernism? 1
5. Part I: Work
6. 1 A Cassandra with Clout: Storm Jameson, Little Englander and Good European 21
7. 2 Englands Ancient and Modern: Sylvia Townsend Warner, T. H. White and the Fictions of Medieval Englishness 38
8. 3 ‘A Strange Field’: Region and Class in the Novels of Harold Heslop 56
9. Part II: Comm
10. 4 Stella Gibbons, Ex-Centricity and the Suburb 75
11. 5 Intermodern Travel: J. B. Priestley’s English and American Journeys 93
12. Part III: War
13. 6 Under Suspicion: The Plotting of Britain in World War II Detective Spy Fiction 113
14. 7 Trials and Errors: The Heat of the Day and Postwar Culpability 131
15. 8 Rebecca West’s Palimpsestic Praxis: Crafting the Intermodern Voice of Witness 150
16. Part IV: Documents
17. 9 The Intermodern Assumption of the Future: William Empson, Charles Madge and Mass-Observation 171
18. 10 ‘The creative treatment of actuality’: John Grierson, Documentary Cinema and ‘Fact’ in the 1930s 189
19. Appendix: Who are the Intermodernists? 208
20. Select Bibliography 225
21. Notes on Contributors 244
22. Index 247