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Title INTERWAR WOMEN'S COMIC FICTION : 'have women a sense of humour?'
Published [Place of publication not identified] CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLIS, 2020

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Summary This collection of essays examines the work of five intermodernist writers. Some were established authors before the First World War and others continued to write after the Second World War, but this book focuses particularly on their writing between 1918 and 1939. Stella Benson, Bradda Field, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Stella Gibbons and Winifred Watson had much in common: they all wrote novels full of comic moments, which often challenged the cultural politics of the interwar period. Drawing on the literary and critical contexts of each novel, the essays here discuss the use of comic structures th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Benson, Stella 1892-1933 gnd
Compton-Burnett, Ivy 1884-1969 gnd
Field, Bradda 1893-1957 gnd
Gibbons, Stella 1902-1989 gnd
Watson, Winifred 1906-2002 gnd
Subject Humorous stories, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Social & cultural history.
Englisch
Frauenliteratur
Humoristischer Roman
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781527545151
1527545156