Women Writers Of The 1930s

Author : Maroula Joannou
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015048753340

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Women Writers of the 1930s by Maroula Joannou Pdf

This volume of new writings has a double purpose: to question Auden's description of the 1930s as a 'low dishonest decade' and to draw attention to the richness, complexity and diversity of women's writing of the period and how this deals with issues of politics, gender and history. The writers discussed include Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Burdekin, Nancy Cunard, Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Naomi Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf.Key Features* A clear and informative introduction by Maroula Joannou sets the writers in historical and literary context* The essays deal with Modernist texts as well as traditional modes of writing, and with neglected and well-known writers* An important challenge to the ways in which the literature of the 1930s has been traditionally understood which questions the myth of the Auden generation* Brings together a range of distinguished contributors all of whom are experienced university teachers who all contribute new research

Author : Charlotte Nekola,Paula Rabinowitz
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781642596809

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Writing Red by Charlotte Nekola,Paula Rabinowitz Pdf

This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen, Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices may be new to readers, including many working-class Black and white women. Topics covered range from sexuality and family relationships, to race, class, and patriarchy, to party politics. Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is “peopled with questioning, caring, socially committed women writers.”

Author : Janet Montefiore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134915002

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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s by Janet Montefiore Pdf

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature? Montefiore's topical analysis of 1930s mass unemployment, fascist uprise and 'appeasement' is shockingly relevant in society today. Issues of class, anti-fascist historical novels, post war memoirs of 'Auden generation' writers and neglected women poets are discussed at length. Writers include: * George Orwell * Virginia Woolf * W.H. Auden * Storm Jameson * Jean Rhys * Rebecca West

Author : Sue Kennedy,Jane Thomas
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Maroula Joannou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0748611967

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Women Writers of the 1930's by Maroula Joannou Pdf

Author : Janet Montefiore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134915019

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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s by Janet Montefiore Pdf

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature? Montefiore's topical analysis of 1930s mass unemployment, fascist uprise and 'appeasement' is shockingly relevant in society today. Issues of class, anti-fascist historical novels, post war memoirs of 'Auden generation' writers and neglected women poets are discussed at length. Writers include: * George Orwell * Virginia Woolf * W.H. Auden * Storm Jameson * Jean Rhys * Rebecca West

Author : Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813920523

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American Women Writers and the Nazis by Thomas Austenfeld Pdf

Addressing a perceived gap in critiques of the works of four North American women expatriate authors in 1930s Germany, Austenfeld (language and literature, North Georgia State College/State U.) analyzes their responses to fascism as part of their creative development. Exploring the theme of personal ethics, the author compares Kay Boyle's novels such as Death of a Man (1936) with Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools (1962). He also discusses Jean Stafford's collected stories of Heidelberg and Lillian Hellman's play, Watch on the Rhine. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Paula Rabinowitz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807843326

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Labor & Desire by Paula Rabinowitz Pdf

This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges th

Author : Patricia Yaeger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226944920

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Dirt and Desire by Patricia Yaeger Pdf

The story of southern writing—the Dixie Limited, if you will—runs along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture. For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and the workings of racial and gender politics in the unnoticed yet all too familiar everyday. Yaeger also excavates a southern fascination with dirt—who owns it, who cleans it, and whose bodies are buried in it. Yaeger's brilliant, theoretically informed readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty (among many others) explode the mystifications of southern literary tradition and forge a new path for southern studies. The book won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award given by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.

Author : Laura Hapke
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820319082

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Daughters of the Great Depression by Laura Hapke Pdf

Daughters of the Great Depression is a reinterpretation of more than fifty well-known and rediscovered works of Depression-era fiction that illuminate one of the decade's central conflicts: whether to include women in the hard-pressed workforce or relegate them to a literal or figurative home sphere. Laura Hapke argues that working women, from industrial wage earners to business professionals, were the literary and cultural scapegoats of the 1930s. In locating these key texts in the "don't steal a job from a man" furor of the time, she draws on a wealth of material not usually considered by literary scholars, including articles on gender and the job controversy; Labor Department Women's Bureau statistics; "true romance" stories and "fallen woman" films; studies of African American women's wage earning; and Fortune magazine pronouncements on white-collar womanhood. A valuable revisionist study, Daughters of the Great Depression shows how fiction's working heroines--so often cast as earth mothers, flawed mothers, lesser comrades, harlots, martyrs, love slaves, and manly or apologetic professionals--joined their real-life counterparts to negotiate the misogynistic labor climate of the 1930s.

Author : Jane Dowson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134790548

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Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology by Jane Dowson Pdf

Where were the women of the so-called `Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles,social values and world politics,women produced a rich variety of poetry.But until now their work has largely been lost or ignored;in Women's Poetry of the 1930s Jane Dowson finally redresses the balance and recovers women's place in the literary history of the interwar years.This comprehensive and beautifully edited collection includes: *Previously uncollected poems by authors such as Winifred Holtby and Naomi Mitchison *Poems which are now out of print,such as those by Vita Sackville-West and Frances Cornford *Poems previously neglected by poets including Ann Ridler and Sylvia Townsend Warner *An extensive critical introduction and individual biographies of each poet Poetry lovers,students and scholars alike will find Women's Poetry of the 1930s an invaluable resource and a collection to treasure.

Author : Debra Adelaide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015079939008

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Australian Women Writers by Debra Adelaide Pdf

Author : Wendy Parkins
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131680261

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Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s by Wendy Parkins Pdf

Analyzing novels by women writers from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that representations of mobility offer a fruitful way to explore the location of women within modernity and, specifically, the opportunities for (or limitations on) women's agency in this period, considering the mobility of the female subject in the city and beyond.

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Jan Montefiore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 0203376218

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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s by Jan Montefiore Pdf

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature? Montefiore's topical analysis of 1930s mass unemployment, fascist uprise and 'appeasement' is shockingly relevant in society today. Issues of class, anti-fascist historical novels, post war memoirs of 'Auden generation' writers a.