The making of Barbara Pym : Oxford, the war years, and post-war austerity / Emily Stockard.

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The making of Barbara Pym : Oxford, the war years, and post-war austerity / Emily Stockard.

9783030838683 (electronic bk.)
3030838684 (electronic bk.)
9783030838676
3030838676

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-83868-3 doi

PR6066.Y58 Z75

823/.914

The Making of Barbara Pym offers new insights into Pyms formative years as a writer, during which she honed a complex view of the necessity of change on individual and cultural levels. Supported by newly published archival material, this comprehensive study of Pyms early work explores her personal and fictional pre-war and wartime writing, including unpublished and posthumously published works, before looking closely at Some Tame Gazelle and Excellent Women, published during Britains post-war austerity period. Of central importance is a new recognition of Pyms use of social roles, particularly those of women, as proper avenues for change. The book traces how Pym came to devise characters whose individual development can be seen as analogous to or representative of larger cultural movements. Pym uses the spinster figure to embody the forward-looking cultural perspectives that she endorsed and then, finally, in Jane and Prudence, to figure the end of Britains austerity period. Emily Stockard is Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, USA. A graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, she has taught classes in British literature, from Chaucer to the 18th century. She has published on 16th and 17th-century poetry and drama and, most recently, on Denton Welch and Barbara Pym.

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