Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History

Mary Joannou

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1998

Women Writers of the 1930s

Gender, Politics and History

Mary Joannou

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780585122779

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About this book

This volume of new writings has a double purpose: to question Auden's description of the 1930s as a 'low dishonest decade' and to draw attention to the richness, complexity and diversity of women's writing of the period and how this deals with issues of politics, gender and history. The writers discussed include Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Burdekin, Nancy Cunard, Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Naomi Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf.

Key Features

A clear and informative introduction by Maroula Joannou sets the writers in historical and literary context
The essays deal with Modernist texts as well as traditional modes of writing, and with neglected and well-known writers
An important challenge to the ways in which the literature of the 1930s has been traditionally understood which questions the myth of the Auden generation
Brings together a range of distinguished contributors all of whom are experienced university teachers who all contribute new research

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
The Woman Writer in the 1930s On Not Being Mrs Giles of Durham City Maroula Joannou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The 1930s: Memory and Forgetting Janet Montefiore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Late Modernism and the Politics of History Jean Radford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Women Poets and the Political Voice Jane Dawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Revising the Marriage Plot in Women's Fiction of the 1930s Diana Wallace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Sylvia Townsend Warner: 'The Centrifugal Kick' Gillian Beer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Rosamond Lehmann's Political Philosophy: From A Note in Music (1930) to No More Music (1939) Wendy Pollard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
In a Class of Her Own: Elizabeth von Arnim Alison Hennegan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
The Reception of Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology Tory Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Lorca' s Mantle: The Rise of Fascism and the Work of Storm Jameson Sylvia Vance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Naomi Mitchison' s Historical Fiction Elizabeth Maslen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Back from the Future: Katharine Burdekin and Science Fiction in the 1930s Keith Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Three Guineas and the Photograph: The Art of Propaganda Elena Gualtieri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Hyams Place: The Years, the Jews and the British Union of Fascists David Bradshaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
No Longer a View: Virginia Woolf in the 1930s and the 1930s in Virginia Woolf Linden Peach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Come in from the Cold War: Rebecca West and Storm Jameson in 1930s Europe Joanna Labon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
The Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9780585122779