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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 REFERENCES W. H. Auden Octavia Butler LEWIS CARROLL, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (1865) Chung Ling Soo (magician) T. S. Eliot WILLIAM EMPSON, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity EMPSON, Some Versions of Pastora