Women Writing Modern Fiction - J. Rossen

Women Writing Modern Fiction

A Passion for Ideas

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
193 Seiten
2003 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-39246-9 (ISBN)
53,45 inkl. MwSt
Many women writers in twentieth-century Britain were fascinated by the individual thought processes of their characters. Women Writing Modern Fiction draws connections between the works of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Olivia Manning, Iris Murdoch and A.S. Byatt, who dramatize darkness in wartime, gothic terror, madness and romantic betrayal, yet celebrate the triumph of rationality and 'The Higher Common Sense'. With irony, detachment, wit and high intelligence, they bring us acrobatic tales of the mind.

JANICE ROSSEN is Senior Research Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. She has written The World of Barbara Pym, Philip Larkin: His Life's Work, and The University in Modern Fiction: When Power is Academic, in addition to a biography of Philip Toynbee. She has co-edited volumes on 1930s British novelists and Ageing and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity.

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: DARKNESS IN THE MIND The World Gone Mad in Wartime Gothic and Fabulist Tales Grieving and Madness PART II: PASSION Romance Betrayal PART III: WIT AND REASON Academic and Detective Novels 'The Higher Common Sense' Notes Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo X, 193 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Schlagworte Drama • Fiction • Novel • Romanticism • Women
ISBN-10 1-349-39246-4 / 1349392464
ISBN-13 978-1-349-39246-9 / 9781349392469
Zustand Neuware
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