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Women Writers of the 1930s : Gender, Politics and History / Mary Joannou.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748611126
  • 9780585122779
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/9287/09043 21
LOC classification:
  • PR116 .W66 1999eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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
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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

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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

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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