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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255089203321

Titolo

The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975 [[electronic resource] ] : Volume Nine / / edited by Clare Hanson, Susan Watkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

1-137-47736-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIII, 305 p.)

Collana

History of British Women's Writing

Disciplina

809.04

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—20th century

Literature—History and criticism

British literature

Fiction

Sociology

Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary History

British and Irish Literature

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction- Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins -- 1. Post-War Fiction: Realism and Experimentalism: Kaye Mitchell -- 2. Lyric, Narrative and Performance in Poetry: Jane Dowson -- 3 Look Back in Gender: Drama: Gabriele Griffin -- 4. Journalism: Deborah Chambers -- 5. Angry Young Women: Education, Class, and Politics: Mary Eagleton -- 6. Sex, Censorship and Identity: Kerry Myler -- 7. The Second Wave: Leanne Bibby -- 8. The Aftermath of War: Kristin Bluemel -- 9. Responding to the Holocaust: Sue Vice -- 10. Internal Empire: Katie Gramich -- 11. The Transcultural Tryst in Migration, Exile and Diaspora: Sandra Courtman -- 12. ‘Witness Literature’ in the post-war novels of Storm Jameson and Doris Lessing: Elizabeth Maslen -- 13. Double Trouble: Helen MacInnes’s and Agatha Christie’s Speculative Spy Thrillers: Phyllis Lassner -- 14. Historical Fictions: Diana Wallace -- 15. Children’s Literature: Ideologies of the Past, Present and Future: Catherine Butler



-- 16. Science Fiction: Susan Watkins -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion. .