1st Edition
Forever England Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
By Alison Light
Copyright 1992
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
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Routledge
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Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we recognise the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars. From... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The demon in the house: the novels of I. Compton-Burnett; Chapter 2 Agatha Christie and conservative modernity; Chapter 3 ‘Peace in our time’: Mrs. Miniver; Chapter 4 Daphne du Maurier's romance with the past Afterword; Appendix: Mrs. Miniver writes to The Times; Notes; Bibliography Index;
Biography
Alison Light
