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British Women Writers of World War II
Phyllis Lassner
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Description for British Women Writers of World War II
Hardback. An analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf and Stevie Smith debated the "justness" of World War II. This book questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 535.
In British Women Writers of World War II , Phyllis Lassner offers a challenging analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith and Storm Jameson debated the `justness' of World War II. Lassner questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women who redefined such pieties as patriotism and duty and heroism and victimization.
In British Women Writers of World War II , Phyllis Lassner offers a challenging analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith and Storm Jameson debated the `justness' of World War II. Lassner questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women who redefined such pieties as patriotism and duty and heroism and victimization.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
Number of Pages
293
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333721957
SKU
V9780333721957
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99-15
About Phyllis Lassner
PHYLLIS LASSNER teaches Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, and Writing at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, essays on British women writers of the interwar and World War II periods, and the introduction to a rediscovered feminist classic, the 1910 novel by Karin Michaelis, The Dangerous Age.
Reviews for British Women Writers of World War II
'Lassner is a masterful reader of these fictions; her readings are supported by intertextual analysis, and biographical details are used to illuminate, but not stand in for, interpretation.' - Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin, Madison