The sentinel : an incomplete early novel / by Rebecca West ; edited by Kathryn Laing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Rebecca, 1892-1983.

Contributor:

Laing, Kathryn.

University of Oxford. European Humanities Research Centre.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffragists--Great Britain--Fiction.

Suffragists.

Social conditions.

Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

lxxiv, 277 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Legenda, 2002.

Summary:

Rebecca West's unfinished - and hitherto unknown - first novel (1909-11) engages with some of the major political, cultural and literary debates of the early twentieth century. Offering a sweeping panorama of English society, West covers issues ranging from contemporary concerns within the feminist movement (including feminism and socialism, female desire, sexuality and motherhood) to Russian revolutionaries, popular culture and aesthetics. In her edition, Laing demonstrates why this flawed work offers an important historical and biographical document and a privileged insight into the emergence of the young Rebecca West as fiction writer and astute critic on the literary and political scene.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1900755513

OCLC:

47940320