Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History

This volume of new writings has a double purpose: to question Auden's description of the 1930s as a 'low dishonest decade' and to draw attention to the richness, complexity and diversity of women's writing of the period and how this deals with issues of politics, gender and histo...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Joannou, Maroula (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:FAB01
FAW01
FCO01
FHA01
FKE01
FLA01
UBG01
UPA01
Volltext
Zusammenfassung:This volume of new writings has a double purpose: to question Auden's description of the 1930s as a 'low dishonest decade' and to draw attention to the richness, complexity and diversity of women's writing of the period and how this deals with issues of politics, gender and history. The writers discussed include Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Burdekin, Nancy Cunard, Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Naomi Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf.Key FeaturesA clear and informative introduction by Maroula Joannou sets the writers in historical and literary contextThe essays deal with Modernist texts as well as traditional modes of writing, and with neglected and well-known writersAn important challenge to the ways in which the literature of the 1930s has been traditionally understood which questions the myth of the Auden generationBrings together a range of distinguished contributors all of whom are experienced university teachers who all contribute new research
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
ISBN:9780585122779
DOI:10.1515/9780585122779