Rose Macaulay, gender, and modernity / edited by Kate Macdonald.

Format:

Book

Series:

Gender and genre ; 16.

Gender and genre ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958--Criticism and interpretation.

Macaulay, Rose.

Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958.

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

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

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 336 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction / Kate Macdonald

The body and the mind. Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: gender, anxiety and protest in non-combatants and others / Jessica Gildersleeve

The dangerous ages of Rose Macaulay / Cynthia Port

Public and private gender identity. "Imprisoned in a cage of print": Rose Macaulay, journalism and gender / Sarah Lonsdale

"Mentally neutral": an improbable tale of gender in Geneva / Juliane Romhild

Women in society. "Thought is everything": women's work in Rose Macaulay's first world war novels / Melissa Edmundson

The domestic modern, the primitive and the middlebrow in Crewe train / Ann Rea

Constructing a public persona: Rose Macaulay's non-fiction / Kate Macdonald

Genre in language. "Ghosts of words": gendering history, language and pleasure in They were defeated (1932) / Diana Wallace

The towers of Trebizond: language and the joys and paradoxes of the modern world / Maria Stella Florio

Landscapes in genre. A catastrophic imagination: Rose Macaulay and the cosmopolitan pleasure of ruins / Christina Svendsen

Rose Macaulay's "Turkey book": The towers of Trebizond as ironic travelogue / Lisa Regan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rose Macaulay, gender, and modernity

ISBN:

9781138206175

1138206172

OCLC:

975369580

Publisher Number:

40027547862