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Nesbitt Jennifer Poulos |
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Narrative settlements : geographies of British women's fiction between the wars / / Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (157 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Feminism and literature - History - 20th century |
Setting (Literature) |
Women in literature |
Place (Philosophy) in literature |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Electronic books. |
Englisch |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Narrative settlements -- The act of passing by: walking, the city novel, and its subjects -- The production of sexuality int he country house novel -- Subjunctive spaces and subjects: male bodies and the plots of imperialism -- Settling for less or bargaining for more? Regional novels and the body politics of Englishness. |
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"Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt's Narrative Settlements resituates British women's writing between the wars in light of postcolonial theories of the novel and feminist geography. Reading works by Winifred Holtby, Vita Sackville-West, Angela Thirkell, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Nesbitt argues that renewed attention to setting provides a methodological base for a more nuanced |
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understanding of the aesthetic preoccupations of women writers between the wars. She provides not only attentive readings of literature during this contentious time, but a convincing argument for looking beyond modernism to locate the significance of interwar literary production."--Jacket. |
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