Contemporary Review, June 1st, 1999
Author James Hanley was a popular contributor to the regional novel. Born in Dublin, Hanley resettled in Liverpool, England, and promoted himself as a professional writer. His works focused on versions of consciousness that were previously not included from the range of subjects found in fiction. In addition, he used an impetus towards passionate conviction to a vision rather than a studied form.
After Valentine Cunningham's magisterial study of the literature of the 1930s, British Writers of the Thirties (1988), we were asked to look again at many of the major figures the ones who seemed to ...
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