The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975 - by Clare Hanson & Susan Watkins (Hardcover)
Similar Products
Products of same category from the store
All
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Literature written between 1945-1975 does not fit easily into dominant critical paradigms, falling between the categories of modernism/ modernity and post-modernism/ post-modernity. However, recent criticism has begun to address this issue and to map the contours of an era which saw both rapid social change and radical literary innovation. This new volume in the History of British Women's Writing series will participate in this reassessment, drawing on new interpretive models which are illuminating the complexities of writing in this period. Moreover, the volume argues that a focus on women's writing, set firmly in its intellectual, material and cultural contexts, is central to defining the period 1945-1975 as a literary period or field of study.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Clare Hanson is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Southampton, UK. She has published widely on the short story and on twentieth-century women's writing and is the author of <i>Hysterical Fictions: the Woman's Novel in the Twentieth Century </i>(Palgrave, 2000), <i> A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture in Britain, 1750-2000 </i>(Palgrave, 2004) and<i> Eugenics, Literature and Culture in Post-war Britain </i>(2012). Between 2010 and 2012 she was co-editor of the journal <i>Contemporary Women's Writing</i>. Her current research explores the relationship between genetics and the literary imagination.</p><p> </p><p>Susan Watkins is Professor in the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is the author of <i>Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice</i> (Palgrave, 2001) and <i>Doris Lessing </i>(2010), and co-editor of <i>Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere</i> (Palgrave, 2006) and <i>Doris Lessing: Border Crossings </i>(2009). She was Chair of the Contemporary Women's Writing Association from 2010-2014 and co-editor of the <i>Journal of Commonwealth Literature </i>from 2010-2015.</p>
Price History
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messagescommunication@pricearchive.us