British Women S Writing 1930 To 1960

Author : Sue Kennedy,Jane Thomas
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789627626

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British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960 by Sue Kennedy,Jane Thomas Pdf

This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women’s writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative in their styles and politics. The neologism ‘interfeminism’ – coined to partner Kristin Bluemel’s ‘intermodernism’ – locates this group chronologically and ideologically between two ‘waves’ of feminism, whilst also forging connections between the political and cultural monoliths that have traditionally overshadowed them. Drawing attention to the strengths of this ‘out-of-category’ writing in its own right, this volume also highlights how intersecting discourses of gender, class and society in the interwar and postwar periods pave the way for the bold reassessments of female subjectivity that characterise second and third wave feminism. The essays showcase the stylistic, cultural and political vitality of a substantial group of women authors of fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and journalism including Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson, Nancy Mitford, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Rumer Godden, Attia Hosain, Doris Lessing, Kamala Markandaya, Susan Ertz, Marghanita Laski, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Pargeter, Eileen Bigland, Nancy Spain, Vera Laughton Matthews, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Comyns, Shelagh Delaney, Stevie Smith and Penelope Mortimer. Additional exploration of the popular magazines Woman’s Weekly and Good Housekeeping and new material from the Vera Brittain archive add an innovative dimension to original readings of the literature of a transformative period of British social and cultural history. List of contributors: Natasha Periyan, Eleanor Reed, Maroula Joannou , Lola Serraf, Sue Kennedy, Ana Ashraf, Chris Hopkins, Gill Plain, Lucy Hall, Katherine Cooper, Nick Turner, Maria Elena Capitani, James Underwood, and Jane Thomas.

Author : Sue Kennedy,Jane Thomas
Publisher : Liverpool English Texts and St
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789621822

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British Women's Writing, 1930 to 1960 by Sue Kennedy,Jane Thomas Pdf

This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women's writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative in their styles and politics. The neologism 'interfeminism' - coined to partner Kristin Bluemel's 'intermodernism' - locates this group chronologically and ideologically between two 'waves' of feminism, whilst also forging connections between the political and cultural monoliths that have traditionally overshadowed them. Drawing attention to the strengths of this 'out-of-category' writing in its own right, this volume also highlights how intersecting discourses of gender, class and society in the interwar and post-war periods pave the way for the bold reassessments of female subjectivity that characterise second and third wave feminism. The essays showcase the stylistic, cultural and political vitality of a substantial group of women authors of fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and journalism including Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson, Nancy Mitford, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Rumer Godden, Attia Hosain, Doris Lessing, Kamala Markandaya, Susan Ertz, Marghanita Laski, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Pargeter, Eileen Bigland, Nancy Spain, Vera Laughton Matthews, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Comyns, Shelagh Delaney, Stevie Smith and Penelope Mortimer. Additional exploration of the popular magazines Woman's Weekly and Good Housekeeping and new material from the Vera Brittain archive add an innovative dimension to original readings of the literature of a transformative period of British social and cultural history.

Author : Mary Eagleton,Emma Parker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137294814

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present by Mary Eagleton,Emma Parker Pdf

This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137292179

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945 by M. Joannou Pdf

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.

Author : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137584656

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1830-1880 by Lucy Hartley Pdf

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.

Author : M. Suzuki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230305502

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690 by M. Suzuki Pdf

During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.

Author : Holly A. Laird
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137393807

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1880-1920 by Holly A. Laird Pdf

The ranks of English women writers rose steeply in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contributing to the era’s revolutionary social movements as well as to transforming literary genres in prose and poetry. The phenomena of ‘the new’ — ‘New Women’, ‘New Unionism’, ‘New Imperialism’, ‘New Ethics’, ‘New Critics’, ‘New Journalism’, ‘New Man’ — are this moment’s touchstones. This book tracks the period's new social phenomena and unfolds its distinctively modern modes of writing. It provides expert introductions amid new insights into women’s writing throughout the United Kingdom and around the globe.

Author : Robin Hackett,Freda Hauser,Gay Wachman
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874130417

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At Home and Abroad in the Empire by Robin Hackett,Freda Hauser,Gay Wachman Pdf

This book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the meanings of Englishness. They reject analyses of texts as chronicles of personal psychological development in favor of analyses that assume texts are shaped by their authors' public intellectual involvement. In addition, they offer detailed, specific explorations of ways in which British women in the 1930s narrativize empire and war. Thus they will resonate with significance for readers in the early twenty-first century for whom empire and war, as well as terror and security, are part of the discourse of everyday life. Robin Hackett is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. Freda S. Hauser is an independent scholar. Gay Wachman is retired from the State University of New York-Old Westbury.

Author : Eleanor Reed
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781837646586

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Woman's Weekly and Lower Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958 by Eleanor Reed Pdf

A unique intersection between periodical and literary scholarship, and class and gender history, this book showcases a brand-new approach to surveying a popular domestic magazine. Reading Woman’s Weekly alongside titles including Good Housekeeping, My Weekly, Peg’s Paper and Woman’s Own, and works by authors including Dot Allan, E.M. Delafield, George Orwell and J.B. Priestley, it positions the publication within both the contemporary magazine market and the field of literature more broadly, redrawing the parameters of that field as it approaches the domestic magazine as a literary genre in its own right. Between 1918 and 1958, Woman’s Weekly targeted a lower middle-class readership: broadly, housewives and unmarried clerical workers on low incomes, who viewed or aspired to view themselves as middle-class. Examining the magazine’s distinctively lower middle-class treatment of issues including the First World War’s impact on gender, the status of housewives and working women, women’s contribution to the Second World War effort, and Britain’s post-war economic and social recovery, this book supplies fresh and challenging insights into lower middle-class culture, during a period in which Britain’s lower middle classes were gaining prominence, and middle-class lifestyles were undergoing rapid and radical change.

Author : Manju Jaidka,Tej N. Dhar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000933154

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English by Manju Jaidka,Tej N. Dhar Pdf

Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English writing, this encyclopedia documents the poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists of Indian origin since the pre-independence era and their dedicated works. Written by internationally recognized scholars, this comprehensive reference book explores the history and development of Indian writers, their major contributions, and the critical reception accorded to them. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and academics navigating the vast area of contemporary world literature.

Author : J. Labbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230297012

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830 by J. Labbe Pdf

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.

Author : Edith Ayrton Zangwill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350064782

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Edith Ayrton Zangwill's The Call by Edith Ayrton Zangwill Pdf

Edith Ayrton Zangwill's 1924 novel The Call is widely regarded as one of the most important suffrage novels of the early 20th century. Including authoritative notes and commentary throughout, this is the first comprehensive scholarly edition of the novel. The Call tells the story of a young chemist, Ursula Winfield, who comes of age in the years before the start of the First World War. Confronted by the gross injustices faced by women and the working class in early 20th-century Britain, she is drawn inexorably and with increasing militancy into the suffragette movement. The story charts the conflict between her political commitments and her personal life as the Great War approaches. Alongside the definitive text of the novel, this edition also includes contextual historical documents – from contemporary reviews of the novel to newspaper coverage of the suffragette movement – and critical chapters by leading scholars exploring the world of the novel.

Author : Clare Hanson,Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137477361

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975 by Clare Hanson,Susan Watkins Pdf

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.

Author : Ashlie Sponenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230379473

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Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950 by Ashlie Sponenberg Pdf

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.

Author : Faye Hammill,Esme Miskimmin,Ashlie Sponenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:1391521703

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Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950 by Faye Hammill,Esme Miskimmin,Ashlie Sponenberg Pdf