TY - BOOK AU - Joannou,Mary AU - Beer,Gillian AU - Bradshaw,David AU - Dawson,Jane AU - Gualtieri,Elena AU - Hennegan,Alison AU - Joannou,Maroula AU - Labon,Joanna AU - Maslen,Elizabeth AU - Montefiore,Janet AU - Peach,Linden AU - Pollard,Wendy AU - Radford,Jean AU - Vance,Sylvia AU - Wallace,Diana AU - Williams,Keith AU - Young,Tory TI - Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History SN - 9780748611126 AV - PR116 .W66 1999eb U1 - 820.9/9287/09043 21 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - English literature KW - Congresses KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Women authors KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Congrès KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Literature and history KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Écrivaines KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature et histoire KW - Politics and literature KW - Politique et littérature KW - Women and literature KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; The Woman Writer in the 1930s On Not Being Mrs Giles of Durham City --; The 1930s: Memory and Forgetting --; Late Modernism and the Politics of History --; Women Poets and the Political Voice --; Revising the Marriage Plot in Women's Fiction of the 1930s --; Sylvia Townsend Warner: 'The Centrifugal Kick' --; Rosamond Lehmann's Political Philosophy: From A Note in Music (1930) to No More Music (1939) --; In a Class of Her Own: Elizabeth von Arnim --; The Reception of Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology --; Lorca' s Mantle: The Rise of Fascism and the Work of Storm Jameson --; Naomi Mitchison' s Historical Fiction --; Back from the Future: Katharine Burdekin and Science Fiction in the 1930s --; Three Guineas and the Photograph: The Art of Propaganda --; Hyams Place: The Years, the Jews and the British Union of Fascists --; No Longer a View: Virginia Woolf in the 1930s and the 1930s in Virginia Woolf --; Come in from the Cold War: Rebecca West and Storm Jameson in 1930s Europe --; The Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 FeaturesA clear and informative introduction by Maroula Joannou sets the writers in historical and literary contextThe essays deal with Modernist texts as well as traditional modes of writing, and with neglected and well-known writersAn important challenge to the ways in which the literature of the 1930s has been traditionally understood which questions the myth of the Auden generationBrings together a range of distinguished contributors all of whom are experienced university teachers who all contribute new research UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780585122779 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780585122779 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780585122779/original ER -