Sisters and rivals in British women's fiction, 1914-39 / Diana Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Diana, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) in literature.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--England--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

England.

History.

Women in literature.

Romance fiction, English--History and criticism.

Romance fiction, English.

Physical Description:

ix, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

What happens when two women love the same man? This is the first book to examine female rivalry as a distinctive theme in women's fiction and to analyze the female-identified erotic triangle, where two women are rivals for the same man, as a narrative pattern which has a special resonance for inter-war women writers. Focusing on five key writers, Diana Wallace offers a reconsideration of inter-war women's writing and an examination of the links and rivalries between women writers themselves.

Contents:

1 'An Age of Transition': Historical Context 10

2 Theorising Female Rivalry 46

3 Rewriting the Victorians: May Sinclair's Transitional Modernism 75

4 The 'Other Woman': Rebecca West's 'Difference of View' 96

5 A 'Shared Working Existence': Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby 117

6 'My Second Self': Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain 138

7 The 'Recurring Dream' of Romance: Rosamond Lehmann 160

Appendix 1 Census Population of the United Kingdom 191.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.

ISBN:

0312234333

OCLC:

43656929