The history of British women's writing, 1945-1975. Volume 9 / edited by Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins.
2017
PR111 .H57 2017eb
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Title
The history of British women's writing, 1945-1975. Volume 9 / edited by Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins.
ISBN
9781137477361 (electronic book)
1137477369 (electronic book)
9781137477354
1137477350
1137477369 (electronic book)
9781137477354
1137477350
Published
Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (305 pages)
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PR111 .H57 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/92870904
Summary
This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women's writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers' engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across "literary", "middlebrow" and "popular" genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children's literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of "second-wave" feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women's writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion.
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This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women's writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers' engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across "literary", "middlebrow" and "popular" genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children's literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of "second-wave" feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women's writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Hanson, Clare, editor.
Watkins, Susan, 1967- editor.
Watkins, Susan, 1967- editor.
Series
History of British women's writing ; 9.
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History of British women's writing, 1945-1975. Vol. 9.
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