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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450928803321

Autore

Montefiore Jan.

Titolo

Men and women writers of the 1930s : the dangerous flood of history / / Janet Montefiore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

0-203-37621-8

0-203-35945-3

1-134-91501-2

1-280-05746-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/00912

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

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

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

Authorship - Sex differences - History - 20th century

Sex role in literature

Memory in literature

Self in literature

Electronic books.

Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Historiography

Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Remembering the 1930's; The pram in the hall: men and women writing  the self in the 1930's; Vamps and victims: images of women in the  left-wing literature of the 1930's; 'Undeservedly forgotten': women poets of  the thirties; Parables of the past: a reading of some anti Fascist historical novels; Collective and individual memory: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Men and Women Writers of the 1930's is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade.  Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the



political literature of and about 1930's Britain?  And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature? Montefiore's topical analysis of 1930's mass unemployment, fascist uprise and 'appeasement' is shockingly relevant in society today.  Issues of class, anti-fascist historical novels, post war memoirs of 'Auden generation' writers a