Mid-century women's writing

Disrupting the public/private divide

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front. But as the burgeoning field of interwar and mid-century women’s writing has demonstrated, this narrative is in desperate need of re-examination. Mid-century women's writing: Disrupting the public/private divide aims to revivify studies of female writers, journalists, broadcasters, and public intellectuals living or working in Britain, or under British rule, during the mid-century while also complicating extant narratives about the divisions between domesticity and politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-01-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:357 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526195517

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Melissa Dinsman is Associate Professor of English at York College, CUNYMegan Faragher is Professor of English at Wright State University–Lake CampusRavenel Richardson is Executive Director of the Strategic Partnerships and Research Collaborative at Case Western Reserve University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Politicizing the domestic and domesticizing politics — Melissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, and Ravenel RichardsonPart I: Introduction - Professionalizing the domestic — Megan Faragher1 Professional identity and personal space in Mary Renault’s Kind are her Answers and Return to Night— Victoria Stewart2 Talking shop: Celia Fremlin and invisible work — Luke Seaber3 ‘some thoroughly tiresome housekeeping crisis’: Rebecca West’s wartime journalism — Debra Rae Cohen4 ‘Coldly kind’: Calculating care in post-war British women’s writing — Emily RidgePart II - Introduction: Nationalizing gender politics – Melissa Dinsman5 New world women and the Labour party win in Marghanita Laski’s The Village — Sarah E. Cornish6 Beyond ‘companionate marriage’: Elizabeth Taylor’s gendered critique of post-war consensus in A View of the Harbour and A Wreath of Roses — Geneviève Brassard7 Dissident friendship and revolutionary love in the novels of Sabitri Roy and Sulekha Sanyal — Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay8 The political theory of heaven: Religious nationalism, mystical anarchism, and the Spanish Civil War in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s After the Death of Don Juan — Charles AndrewsPart III - Introduction: Women beyond the nation — Ravenel Richardson9 ‘A woman is always a woman!’: British women writers and refugees — Katherine Cooper 10 Families in a time of catastrophe: Anna Gmeyner’s Manja, 1920-1938 – Phyllis Lassner11 ‘Some other land, some other sea’: Attia Hosain’s fiction and nonfiction in Distant Traveller – Ambreen HaiBibliographyIndex