Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works.
1. Introduction: Politics and Pleasure in Language
2. From Communism to the Wall Street Crash: Buchan in the 1920s
3. Ex-officers and Gentlemen: Yates in the 1920s
4. Political Uncertainty: Buchan in the 1930s
5. Novels of Instruction: Thirkell in the 1930s
6. Aggressive Reactions: Yates in the 1930s and 1940s
7. Thirkell in Wartime, 1940-45
8. Rewriting History: Yates and Thirkell, 1945-1960
9. Conclusion
Endnotes
Appendix 1: List of works by John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell
Works cited
Index
