Introduction: Literary History from Below

1. Middlemen, Markets, and Literary Advice

2. A Chance to Exercise Our Talents

3. Fiction and the Writing Public

4. In My Own Language about My Own People

5. Class, Patronage, and Literary Tradition

6. People's Writing and the People's War

7. The Logic of Our Times

8. Popular Writing after the War

Conclusion: On or about the End of the Chatterley Ban

Abbreviations

Notes

Manuscripts and Archives Consulted

Acknowledgments

Index

Photo by Brad Gerhard

Christopher Hilliard is Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Sydney.