9780415016629 - Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars by Light, Alison (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Most studies of the interwar years have focused upon literary elites, rendering the period and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In 'Forever England', Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness between the wars, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we recognise how much ideas of national identity were bound up with notions of femininity and private life.Boldly moving across the culture, from the highbrow novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett to the detective fiction of Agatha Christie, the author traces the making of a conservative national temperament between the wars, at once defensive and protective, and yet modernising in outlook. Whether analysing the significance of the 'whodunnit', the appeal of historical romance, or the creation of a middlebrow culture, she evokes a powerful sense of the pleasures of reading and writing, as well as offering an intimate picture of interwar life from inside the heartlands of the English middle classes.At once scholarly and passionate, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the boundaries between literature and history, and their different forms of story-telling, as well as the British past and the changing shapes of national and sexual identities. *Some light wear around book, to edges and cover. Copyright 漏 Routledge.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Secondhand. Very good book. Book covers have light shelf wear, andsome tiny corner creases. Clean pages. Owner name written inside.

Paperback. Condition: Good+, sound copy. Paperback. 281pp. Chapters on Ivy Compton-Burnett, Agatha Christie, Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther and Daphne du Maurier. Lightly rubbed and with light reading wear. A few light marks to the shelf edge else clean and sound. Good+, sound copy.