Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
Autor Alison Lighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 dec 2013
From the traumatic aftermath of the First World War, Forever England traces the making of a conservative national temperament which could be defensive and protective, yet modernising in outlook. In a series of literary anaylses, the author suggests some of the tones and accents of this new version of Englishness; in particular she looks at new kinds of readership and fiction, at the historical and emotional significance of the `whodunit', the burgeoning of historical romance, and the creation of a middlebrow culture in the period.
Forever England evokes a powerful sense of period and of the pleasures of reading, providing an intimate picture of interwar life from inside the English middle classes. As a feminist inquiry, it argues from a different kind of social and political history; one which makes connections between the interior structures of private life and their more public national forms. Controversially, it also urges that feminism deal with conservative, as well as radical, desires and their place in women's lives.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415861892
ISBN-10: 0415861896
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415861896
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction; Chapter 1 The demon in the house: the novels of I. Compton-Burnett; Chapter 2 Agatha Christie and conservative modernity; Chapter 3 ‘Peace in our time’: Mrs. Miniver; Chapter 4 Daphne du Maurier's romance with the past Afterword; Appendix: Mrs. Miniver writes to The Times; Notes; Bibliography Index;
Descriere
Shows how ideas of nation identity were bound up with notions of femininity and private life during the period between the wars. Alison Light looks at a range of writers from Ivy Compton-Burnett and Daphne du Maurier to Agatha Christie.