Description
| Product ID: | 9781137477354 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | History of British Women's Writing |
| Title: | The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975 |
| Subtitle: | Volume Nine |
| Authors: | Author: Clare Hanson, Susan Watkins |
| Page Count: | 305 |
| Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction and Related items, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Fiction & related items, Gender studies, gender groups |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-09-22 |
