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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000481279707536

Titolo

British women writing fiction / edited by Abby H.P. Werlock ; foreword by Regina Barreca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000

ISBN

0817309829 (alk. paper)

0817309810 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 330 p. ; 24 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

Werlock, Abby H. P.

Soggetti

Narrativa inglese - Scrittrici - Storia e critica

Donne nella letteratura - Gran Bretagna - Storia

Narrativa inglese - Storia e critica

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Regina Barreca -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Abby P. Werlock -- Iris Murdoch: mapping the country of desire / Roberta White -- "Transformed and translated": the colonized reader of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos space fiction / Susan Rowland -- P.D. James and the dissociation of sensibility / Eric Nelson -- Retrofitting the Raj: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the uses and abuses of the past / Judie Newman -- Anita Brookner: on reaching for the sun / Kate Fullbrook -- "Witness to their vanishing": Elaine Feinstein's fictions of Jewish continuity / Phyllis Lassner -- "Women like us must learn to stick together": lesbians in the novels of Fay Weldon / Patricia Juliana Smith -- Crossing boundaries: the female artist and the sacred word in Byatt's Possession / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Emma Tennant: the secret lives of girls / Marilyn Wesley -- Margaret Drabble: chronicler, moralist, artist / Mary Rose Sullivan -- To pose or not to po.