Joannou, Maroula
The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945
1. Introduction: Modernism, Modernity, and the Middlebrow in Context
Maroula Joannou
Part I. Mapping Modernism
2. Gender in Modernism
Bonnie Kime Scott
3. Exemplary Intermodernists: Stevie Smith, Inez Holden, Betty Miller, and Naomi Mitchison
Kristin Bluemel
4. Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Modernism
Jane Goldman
5. The Art of Bi-Location: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Maud Ellmann
Part II. Cultural Hierarchy
6. The Feminine Middlebrow Novel
Nicola Humble
7. Women and Comedy
Sophie Blanch
8. The Woman’s Historical Novel
Diana Wallace
9. ‘Queens of Crime’: The ‘Golden Age’ of Crime Fiction
Cora Kaplan
Part III. Gendered Genres
10. Poetry, 1920–1945
Jane Dowson
11. Drama, 1920–1945
Rebecca D’Monté
12. The Woman Journalist, 1920–1945
Catherine Clay
Part IV. The Mobile Woman
13. Caught in the Triple Net? Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Women Writers
Katie Gramich
14. Women’s Writing in the Second World War
Gill Plain
15. Women Writing Empire
Lisa Regan
16. Women Writing the City
Deborah Longworth
17. Myths of Passage:
Tory Young
Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature, general, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory
- Editor
- Joannou, Maroula
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The History of British Women’s Writing
- Page amount
- 334 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137292179
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-32858-1