Women writers of the 1930s : gender, politics, and history / edited and with an introduction by Maroula Joannou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joannou, Maroula, Author.

Contributor:

Joannou, Maroula.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature.

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

Women and literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century--Congresses.

Politics and literature.

Literature and history--Great Britain--History--20th century--Congresses.

Literature and history.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism--20th century--Great Britain--Congresses.

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

Politics and literature--History--20th century--Great Britain--Congresses.

Literature and history--History--20th Century--Congresses.

English literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 224 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Women Writers of the 1930s

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This is the first book to deal exclusively with women writers of the liberal-left in the 1930s. The volume has a double purpose: to examine what is radical about women's writing and to draw attention to the richness, diversity and complexity of texts which have often been omitted or marginalised in critical discussion of the period. The contributors offer a broad understanding of the political to encompass a wide range of concerns including matters of race, class, nation, sexuality, personal relationships, and the uses and abuses of power."--Jacket.

Contents:

The woman writer in the 1930s: on not being Mrs Giles of Durham City / Maroula Joannou

The 1930s: memory and forgetting / Janet Montefiore

Late modernism and the politics of history / Jean Radford

Women poets and the political voice / Jane Dowson

Revising the marriage plot in women's fiction of the 1930s / Diana Wallace

Sylvia Townsend Warner: 'The Centrifugal kick' / Gillian Beer

Rosamond Lehmann's political philosophy: from a Note in music (1930) to No more music (1939) / Wendy Pollard

In a class of her own: Elizabeth von Arnim / Alison Hennegan

The reception of Nancy Cunard's Negro anthology / Tory Young

Lorca's mantle: the rise of fascism and the work of Storm Jameson / Sylvia Vance

Naomi Mitchison's historical fiction / Elizabeth Maslen

Back from the future: Katherine Burdekin and science fiction in the 1930s / Keith Williams

Three guineas and the photograph: the art of propaganda / Elena Gualtieri

Hyams place: the Years, the Jews and the British Union of fascists / David Bradshaw

No longer a view: Virginia Woolf in the 1930s and the 1930s in Virginia Woolf / Linden Peach

Come in from the cold war: Rebecca West and Storm Jameson in 1930s Europe / Joanna Labon.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a conference at the University of Eastern England, November 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-585-12277-6