Title The history of British women's writing, 1920-1945 / edited by Maroula Joannou

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (340 pages) : 1 figure Series History of British Women's Writing History of British Women's Writing Contents Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Chronology 1920-1945; Introduction: Modernism, Modernity, and the Middlebrow in Context; Part I: Mapping Modernism; 1 Gender in Modernism; 2 Exemplary Intermodernists: Stevie Smith, Inez Holden, Betty Miller, and Naomi Mitchison; 3 Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Modernism; 4 The Art of Bi-Location: Sylvia Townsend Warner; Part II: Cultural Hierarchy; 5 The Feminine Middlebrow Novel; 6 Women and Comedy; 7 The Woman's Historical Novel; 8 'Queens of Crime': The 'Golden Age' of Crime Fiction Part III: Gendered Genres9 Poetry, 1920-1945; 10 Drama, 1920-1945; 11 The Woman Journalist, 1920-1945; Part IV: The Mobile Woman; 12 Caught in the Triple Net? Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Women Writers; 13 Women's Writing in the Second World War; 14 Women Writing Empire; 15 Women Writing the City; 16 Myths of Passage: Paris and Parallax; Electronic Resources; Select Bibliography; Index Summary 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 Notes Electronic book text Epublication based on: 9780230282797, 2012 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes MARY JOANNOU is Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of 'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-1938 and Contemporary Women's Writing: From the Golden Notebook to the Colour Purple. She edited Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History Subject English literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) -- c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) Gender studies: women -- English -- c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) -- c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. English literature English literature -- Women authors Women and literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Joannou, Maroula. ISBN 1137292172 9781137292179

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