1st Edition
Rosamond Lehmann and Her Critics The Vagaries of Literary Reception
By Wendy Pollard
Copyright 2004
195 Pages
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Routledge
This study of contemporary and later critical responses to the work of the novelist Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) offers an original approach to twentieth-century literary history by foregrounding the cultural and commercial fields in which Lehmann's writing was situated. The author examines the effect recent developments in literary theory and movements from modernism to feminism have had on... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The cultural and critical framework; The first novel amid 'The Selecting Authorities'; 'The Second Novel is the Test!'; 'Something Like the Perfect Vignette'; A change of publisher; A chain of receptions; A text open to multiple interpretations; Echoes and endings; The final works; Lehmann's literary legacy; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Wendy Pollard
