Post-war British women novelists and the canon /:

This is a monograph analysing a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing has been formed. With the increasing number of books on contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom we value, and why. These questions lie at the...

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Main Author: Turner, Nick (Nick Peter)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Series:Continuum literary studies.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This is a monograph analysing a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing has been formed. With the increasing number of books on contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom we value, and why. These questions lie at the heart of this book which, by focusing on four novelists, literary and popular, interrogates the canon over the last fifty years. The argument unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control canonicity, as do the demands of genre, the increasing commercialisation of literature, and t.
Physical Description:1 online resource (195 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-186) and index.
ISBN:9781441178886
1441178880
9781441189042
1441189041
9781472542700
1472542703
9781441120946
1441120947

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