Narrative settlements : geographies of British women's fiction between the wars / Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nesbitt, Jennifer Poulos, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

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

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Feminism and literature--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Setting (Literature).

Women in literature.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Summary:

"Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt's Narrative Settlements resituates British women's writing between the wars in light of postcolonial theories of the novel and feminist geography. Reading works by Winifred Holtby, Vita Sackville-West, Angela Thirkell, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Nesbitt argues that renewed attention to setting provides a methodological base for a more nuanced understanding of the aesthetic preoccupations of women writers between the wars. She provides not only attentive readings of literature during this contentious time, but a convincing argument for looking beyond modernism to locate the significance of interwar literary production."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Narrative settlements

The act of passing by: walking, the city novel, and its subjects

The production of sexuality int he country house novel

Subjunctive spaces and subjects: male bodies and the plots of imperialism

Settling for less or bargaining for more? Regional novels and the body politics of Englishness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-7754-6

OCLC:

958562637