The History of British Women´s Writing, 1945-1975: Volume Nine
Julie Hanson
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
History of British Women's Writing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
305
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137477354
SKU
V9781137477354
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Ref
99-1
About Julie Hanson
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 Hysterical Fictions: the Woman's Novel in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2000), A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture in Britain, 1750-2000 (Palgrave, 2004) and Eugenics, Literature ... Read more
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