The History Of British Women S Writing 1945 1975

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 : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Mary Eagleton,Emma Parker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Andrew Radford,Hannah Van Hove
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030727666

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British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945—1975 by Andrew Radford,Hannah Van Hove Pdf

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.

Author : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Holly A. Laird
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Sue Kennedy,Jane Thomas
Publisher : Liverpool English Texts and St
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0230200796

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The History of British Women's Writing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gina Wisker,Leanne Bibby,Heidi Yeandle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031280931

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Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing by Gina Wisker,Leanne Bibby,Heidi Yeandle Pdf

This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century. Writing about the relationships between women’s writings is an always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is, for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0230200796

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The History of British Women's Writing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Webb
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800855304

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Useless Activity by Christopher Webb Pdf

Using a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975 is the first study to ask why the experimental writing of the 1960s and 1970s appears so fraught with anxiety about its own uselessness, before suggesting that this very anxiety was symptomatic of a unique period in British literary history when traditional notions about literary work – and what 'worked' in terms of literature – were being radically scrutinised and reassessed. The study is divided into five chapters with three of those dedicated to the close analysis of work produced by three writers representative of the 1960s British avant-garde: Eva Figes (1932–2012), B.S. Johnson (1933–1973), and Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984). The book argues that these writers’ preoccupations with concepts related to work, such as leisure, debt, and various forms of neglected labour like housework, allow us to rethink the British avant-garde's relation to realism while posing broader questions about the production and value of post-war literary avant-gardism more generally. Useless Activity proposes that only with an understanding of the British avant-garde’s engagement with the idea of work and its various corollaries can we appreciate these writers' move away from certain forms of literary realism and their contribution to the development of the modern British novel during the mid-twentieth century.

Author : J. Labbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Sarah Falcus,Maricel Oró-Piqueras
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350230675

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Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction by Sarah Falcus,Maricel Oró-Piqueras Pdf

Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns. As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future.

Author : Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137486509

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Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins Pdf

This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.

Author : Ann Rea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350271371

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Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage by Ann Rea Pdf

An exploration of how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality before and following the Second World War, this book moves away from masculinist assumptions of the genre to offer an integrative survey of the sexualities on display from important characters across spy fiction. Topics covered include how authors mocked the traditional spy genre; James Bond as a symbol of pervasive British Superiority still anxious about masculinity; how older female spies act as queer figures that disturb the masculine mythology of the secret agent; and how the clandestine lives of agents described ways to encode queer communities under threat from fascism. Covering texts such as the Bond novels, John Le Carré's oeuvre (and their notable adaptations) and works by Helen MacInnes, Christopher Isherwood and Mick Herron, Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage takes stock of spy fiction written by women, female protagonists written by men, and probes the representations of masculinity generated by male authors. Offering a counterpoint to a genre traditionally viewed as male-centric, Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage proposes a revision of masculinity, femininity, queer identities and gendered concepts such as domesticity, and relates them to notions of nationality and the defence work conducted at crucial moments in history.