LEADER 04988nam 22005655 450 001 9910495233303321 005 20251117064037.0 010 $a9783030727666 010 $a3030727661 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-72766-6 035 $a(CKB)5590000000549851 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6711385 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6711385 035 $a(OCoLC)1287133721 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-72766-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000549851 100 $a20210823d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBritish Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975 $eSlipping Through the Labels /$fedited by Andrew Radford, Hannah Van Hove 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a9783030727659 311 08$a3030727653 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: (Re)mapping the Post-War British Literary Landscape -- Part I: Conditions of Experiment: Post-war Contexts -- Chapter 2: Feeling "The High-voltage Current of the General Pass": Experiments in Subjectivity in British Women's Fiction in the Wake of World War II -- Chapter 3: A Precarious Vision: Hallucination and the Short Story in Post-War Britain -- Chapter 4: Whose Sister? "Convenient Pigeonholes", Peter Owen and the Publishing of Anna Kavan -- Chapter 5: Contacts, Landings: The Holocaust and Late Modernist Form in Eva Figes and Eva Tucker -- Part II: Belonging Nowhere? Experimental Women Writers Reconsidered -- Chapter 6: No Country for Old Maids? Housing the Mid-Century Fiction of Ivy Compton-Burnett -- Chapter 7. Anna Kavan's Ice: Postwar Experimentalism and the Fiction of the Anthropocene -- Chapter 8: Sweetly Sings the Donkey and Experimentalism after the Angry Young Men -- Chapter 9: "Designing its Own Shadow": Tracing Ann Quin's Reiterative Experimental Processes -- Chapter 10: "Simply as an Instrument": The Female Characters of Christine Brooke-Rose -- Chapter 11: Brigid Brophy's In Transit, or the Post-war Novel's Transition from an "Exhausted" to a "Replenished" Form -- Chapter 12: Experimenting in the Ditch: Buchi Emecheta's Early Novels of Transformation -- Chapter 13: Afterword. 330 $aThis book scrutinizes a range of relatively overlooked post-WWII British women writers who sought to demonstrate that narrative prose fiction offered rich possibilities for aesthetic innovation. What unites all the primary authors in this volume is a commitment to challenging the tenets of British mimetic realism as a literary and historical phenomenon. This collection reassesses how British female novelists operated in relation to transnational vanguard networking clusters, debates and tendencies, both political and artistic. The chapters collected in this volume enquire, for example, whether there is something fundamentally different (or politically dissident) about female experimental procedures and perspectives. This book also investigates the processes of canon formation, asking why, in one way or another, these authors have been sidelined or misconstrued by recent scholarship. Ultimately, it seeks to refine a new research archive on mid-century British fiction by female novelists at least as diverse as recent and longer established work in the domain of modernist studies. Andrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in modernist and contemporary Anglo-American Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published The Occult Imagination in Britain 1875-1947 (2018) and has co-edited two previous collections of essays: Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets (2012), and Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality: A Piercing Darkness (2017). Hannah Van Hove is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Free University in Brussels, Belgium, where she is conducting a research project on British post-war experimental women's writing. She completed her PhD on the fiction of Anna Kavan, Alexander Trocchi and Ann Quin at the University of Glasgow, UK, in 2017. She is Chair of the Anna Kavan Society and sitson the editorial board of the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aFiction 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aFiction. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 676 $a820.99287 676 $a820.992870945 702 $aRadford$b Andrew$f1972- 702 $aHove$b Hannah van 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495233303321 996 $aBritish experimental women's fiction, 1945-1975$92572032 997 $aUNINA