The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945: Volume Eight: 08 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230282792 ISBN 13: 9780230282797

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

The historical period from 1920 to 1945 is coterminous with the great achievements of literary Modernism dating approximately from the annus mirabilis of 1922, which saw T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses, to the publication of Joyce's Finnegans Wake at the apex of 'high Modernism' in 1939. The majority of women whose work is discussed in volume eight of The History of British Women's Writing series do not fit into a recognized version of the modernist canon. Their complex and often troubled relationship to modernity – as readers, consumers, and travellers at home and abroad – requires new critical frameworks in which to discuss their writing as well as a revision of the territory that has been staked out as the preserve of Modernism by critical theory and practice.
This book serves as a superb new mapping and overview of women's writing between the two world wars written by leading scholars from Britain and the United States. Topics range from the feminine middlebrow novel to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to best-selling crime fiction, from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales and poetry in small magazines.

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Review:

'The essays offer a detailed outline of the diverse cultural, historical and political circumstances surrounding women's literary production in the first half of the twentieth century, paving the way for further in-depth engagement with these writers, and providing a critical overview that will be an invaluable support to such studies.' - Gemma Moss, The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society

Book Description:

A collection of essays from prominent academics on the history of British women's writing between the two World Wars (1920-1945)

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0230282792
• ISBN 13: 9780230282797
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Joannou M.