Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928–1968

Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928–1968
Title Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928–1968 PDF eBook
Author E. Maslen
Publisher Springer
Pages 257
Release 2001-02-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0230511929

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In Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 , Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new-wave feminism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels, Maslen analyses how writers chose to represent such issues as pacifism and the threat of fascism, war, race and class, and gender, exploring in the process how the writers' priorities affect their decisions on how to write.

British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945—1975

British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945—1975
Title British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945—1975 PDF eBook
Author Andrew Radford
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 293
Release 2021-08-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3030727661

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This book scrutinizes a range of relatively overlooked post-WWII British women writers who sought to demonstrate that narrative prose fiction offered rich possibilities for aesthetic innovation. What unites all the primary authors in this volume is a commitment to challenging the tenets of British mimetic realism as a literary and historical phenomenon. This collection reassesses how British female novelists operated in relation to transnational vanguard networking clusters, debates and tendencies, both political and artistic. The chapters collected in this volume enquire, for example, whether there is something fundamentally different (or politically dissident) about female experimental procedures and perspectives. This book also investigates the processes of canon formation, asking why, in one way or another, these authors have been sidelined or misconstrued by recent scholarship. Ultimately, it seeks to refine a new research archive on mid-century British fiction by female novelists at least as diverse as recent and longer established work in the domain of modernist studies.

Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950

Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950
Title Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950 PDF eBook
Author Ashlie Sponenberg
Publisher Springer
Pages 353
Release 2015-12-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230379478

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This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.

The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945

The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945
Title The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945 PDF eBook
Author M. Joannou
Publisher Springer
Pages 329
Release 2016-01-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137292172

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Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

The Woman's Historical Novel

The Woman's Historical Novel
Title The Woman's Historical Novel PDF eBook
Author D. Wallace
Publisher Springer
Pages 282
Release 2004-11-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230505945

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The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat Barker.

A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry

A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry
Title A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry PDF eBook
Author Jane Dowson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 424
Release 2005-05-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521819466

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British Women Writers 1914-1945

British Women Writers 1914-1945
Title British Women Writers 1914-1945 PDF eBook
Author Catherine Clay
Publisher Routledge
Pages 195
Release 2017-09-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351954504

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Catherine Clay's persuasively argued and rigorously documented study examines women's friendships during the period between the two world wars. Building on extensive new archival research, the book's organizing principle is a series of literary-historical case-studies that explore the practices, meanings and effects of friendship within a network of British women writers, who were all loosely connected to the feminist weekly periodical Time and Tide. Clay considers the letters and diaries, as well as fiction, poetry, autobiographies and journalistic writings, of authors such as Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison, and Stella Benson, to examine women's friendships in relation to two key contexts: the rise of the professional woman writer under the shadow of literary modernism and historic shifts in the cultural recognition of lesbianism crystallized by The Well of Loneliness trial in 1928. While Clay's study presents substantial evidence to support the crucial role close and enduring friendships played in women's professional achievements, it also boldly addresses the limitations and denials of these relationships. Producing 'biographies of friendship' untold in existing author studies, her book also challenges dominant accounts of women's friendships and advances new ways for thinking about women's friendship in contemporary debates.