Interwar women's comic fiction : 'have women a sense of humour?' / edited by Nicola Darwood and Nick Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Darwood, Nicola, editor.

Turner, Nick, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humorous stories, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

This collection of essays examines the work of five intermodernist writers. Some were established authors before the First World War and others continued to write after the Second World War, but this book focuses particularly on their writing between 1918 and 1939. Elizabeth von Arnim, Stella Benson, Bradda Field, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Stella Gibbons and Winifred Watson had much in common: they all wrote novels full of comic moments, which often challenged the cultural politics of the interwar period. Drawing on the literary and critical contexts of each novel, the essays here discuss the use of comic structures that enabled the authors to critique the dominant patriarchal structures of their time, and offer an alternative, sometimes subversive, view of the world in which their characters reside. This book contributes to the growing scholarly interest in interwar fiction, focusing principally on novelists who have fallen out of public view. It widens our understanding both of the authors and of the continuing, highly topical debate about interwar women novelists.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Coda

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-5275-4515-6

OCLC:

1137856309