The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945 (eBook, PDF)

Volume Eight
Redaktion: Joannou, M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137292179
• Artikelnr.: 38279203

Autorenporträt

Sophie Blanch Lecturer In English Literature, University Of Surrey, UK Catherine Clay Senior Lecturer In English, Nottingham Trent University, UK Rebecca D'monté Senior Lecturer, University Of The West Of England, UK Jane Dowson Reader In Twentieth-Century Literature, De Montfort University, UK Maud Ellmann Randy L. And Melvin R. Berlin Professor Of The Development Of The Novel In English, University Of Chicago, USA Jane Goldman Reader In English Literature, University Of Glasgow, UK Katie Gramich Professor In English Literature, Cardiff University, UK Nicola Humble Professor Of English, Roehampton University, UK Cora Kaplan Professor Emerita Of English, Southampton University, UK Deborah Longworth Senior Lecturer, University Of Birmingham, UK Gill Plain Professor, St Andrews University, UK Lisa Regan Lecturer In English Literature, University Of Gloucestershire, UK Bonnie Kime Scott Professor Of Women's Studies, San Diego State University, USA Diana Wallace Professor Of English Literature, University Of Glamorgan, UK Tory Young Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Chronology 1920-1945 Introduction: Modernism, The Middlebrow and Modernity in Context; M.Joannou PART I: MAPPING MODERNISM Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Modernism; J.Goldman Gender in Modernism; B.Kime Scott The Art of Bi-Location: Sylvia Townsend Warner; M.Ellmann Exemplary Intermodernists; K.Bluemel PART II: CULTURAL HIERARCHY The Feminine Middlebrow Novel; N.Humble Women and Comedy; S.Blanch The Woman's Historical Novel; D.Wallace Crime Fiction; C.Kaplan PART III: GENDERED GENRES Poetry 1920-45; J.Dowson Drama 1920-1945; R.D'Monté The Woman Journalist; C.Clay PART IV: THE MOBILE WOMAN Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Women Writers; K.Gramich Women's Writing in the Second World War; G.Plain Women Writing Empire; L.Regan Myths of Passage: Paris and Parallax; T.Young Women Writing the City; D.Longworth Bibliography Electronic Resources Index

Rezensionen

'The essays offer a detailed outline of the diverse cultural, historical and political circumstances surrounding women's literary production in the first half of the twentieth century, paving the way for further in-depth engagement with these writers, and providing a critical overview that will be an invaluable support to such studies.' - Gemma Moss, The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society