Mid-century women's writing : disrupting the public/private divide / edited by Melissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, and Ravenel Richardson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dinsman, Melissa, editor.

Faragher, Megan, editor.

Richardson, Ravenel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English--20th century.

Authors, English.

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

English literature.

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

Women and literature.

Women journalists--Great Britain--20th century.

Women journalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: politicizing the domestic and domesticizing politics

Part I: Professionalizing the domestic

Introduction to Part I

Chapter 1: Professional identity and personal space in Mary Renault’s Kind Are Her Answers and Return to Night

Chapter 2: Talking shop: Celia Fremlin and invisible work

Chapter 3: ‘Some thoroughly tiresome housekeeping crisis’: Rebecca West’s wartime journalism

Chapter 4: ‘Coldly kind’: calculated care in post-war British women’s writing

Part II: Nationalizing gender politics

Introduction to Part II

Chapter 5: New world women and the Labour Party win in Marghanita Laski’s The Village

Chapter 6: Beyond ‘companionate marriage’: Elizabeth Taylor’s gendered critique of post-war consensus in A View of the Harbour and A Wreath of Roses

Chapter 7: Dissident friendship and revolutionary love in the novels of Sabitri Roy and Sulekha Sanyal

Chapter 8: ‘The political theory of heaven’: religious nationalism, mystical anarchism, and the Spanish Civil War in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s After the Death of Don Juan

Part III: Women beyond the nation

Introduction to Part III

Chapter 9: ‘A woman is always a woman!’: British women writers and refugees

Chapter 10: Families in a time of catastrophe: Anna Gmeyner’s Manja, 1920–33

Chapter 11: ‘Some other land, some other sea’: Attia Hosain’s fiction and non-fiction in Distant Traveller

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526169785

1526169789

OCLC:

1467876967