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British women writing fiction / edited by Abby H. P. Werlock ; foreword by Regina Barreca.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction--History and criticism--Women authors--20th century--Great Britain.
- Women and literature--History--20th century.
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 330 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining. This book offers an informal, jargon-free introduction to the fiction of sixteen contemporary writers either brought up or now living in England. Book jacket."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Regina Barreca
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Abby P. Werlock
- Iris Murdoch: mapping the country of desire / Roberta White
- "Transformed and translated": the colonized reader of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos space fiction / Susan Rowland
- P.D. James and the dissociation of sensibility / Eric Nelson
- Retrofitting the Raj: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the uses and abuses of the past / Judie Newman
- Anita Brookner: on reaching for the sun / Kate Fullbrook
- "Witness to their vanishing": Elaine Feinstein's fictions of Jewish continuity / Phyllis Lassner
- "Women like us must learn to stick together": lesbians in the novels of Fay Weldon / Patricia Juliana Smith
- Crossing boundaries: the female artist and the sacred word in Byatt's Possession / Deborah Denenholz Morse
- Emma Tennant: the secret lives of girls / Marilyn Wesley
- Margaret Drabble: chronicler, moralist, artist / Mary Rose Sullivan
- To pose or not to po
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-30091-7
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