Mid-century women's writing
Title | Mid-century women's writing PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Dinsman |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2024-07-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526169762 |
The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front. But as the burgeoning field of interwar and mid-century women’s writing has demonstrated, this narrative is in desperate need of re-examination. Mid-century women's writing: Disrupting the public/private divide aims to revivify studies of female writers, journalists, broadcasters, and public intellectuals living or working in Britain, or under British rule, during the mid-century while also complicating extant narratives about the divisions between domesticity and politics.
Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'
Title | Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir' PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Breashears |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 2017-02-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319486551 |
This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women’s life writings, particularly those labeled “scandalous memoirs.” It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped partially by several innovative memoirs that have received only modest critical attention. Breashears argues that Madame de La Touche’s Apologie and her friend Lady Vane’s Memoirs contributed to the crystallization of this sub-genre at mid-century, and that Lady Vane’s collaboration with Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle resulted in a brilliant experiment in the relationship between gender and genre. It demonstrates that the Memoirs of Catherine Jemmat incorporated influential new strategies for self-justification in response to changing kinship priorities, and that Margaret Coghlan’s Memoirs introduced revolutionary themes that created a hybrid: the political scandalous memoir. This book will therefore appeal to scholars interested in life writing, women’s history, genre theory, and eighteenth-century British literature.
Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction
Title | Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Coulson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2022-08-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781474480505 |
This book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender.
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Dale M. Bauer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2001-11-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521669757 |
A 2001 Companion providing an overview of the history of writing by women in nineteenth-century America.
A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789
Title | A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Staves |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2006-09-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139458582 |
Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women's writing in all literary forms, not only fiction, but also poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, essay, translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected, and those who have been revalued and studied, are given equal attention. The book's organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered, as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.
The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975
Title | The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975 PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Hanson |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2017-09-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137477369 |
This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion.
The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830
Title | The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830 PDF eBook |
Author | J. Labbe |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2010-08-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230297013 |
This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the last 25 years of scholarship and textual recovery to demonstrate the literary and cultural significance of women in the period, discussing writers such as Austen, Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.