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: Paris and Parallax
Tory Young

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature, general, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory