Literature's response to social crises

Literature's response to social crises

The depression of the late 1920s resulted in a huge rise in unemployment and mass poverty that led many writers wondering how they could make their work relevant.
I am Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London. I work on twentieth-century literature and culture. I am both a literary critic and a cultural historian and I am invested in finding new ways to represent the complex relationships between life, literature and history. I am a 2013 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner.
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