1st Edition

Winifred Holtby's Social Vision 'Members One of Another'

By Lisa Regan Copyright 2012
256 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.

Introduction: ‘A Corporate Adventure’; Chapter 1 Between a ‘Community of Place’ and a ‘Community of Choice’: Anderby Wold and The Crowded Street; Chapter 2 Travel and the ‘Two-Dimensional Effect’ in the Land of Green Ginger; Chapter 3 Societies and Social Experiments in Poor Caroline; Chapter 4 Mandoa, Mandoa! and ‘the Altogetherness of Everything’: Imperial Unity and Transnational Complicity; Chapter 5 ‘Members One of Another’: Narrating the Nation in South Riding; conclusion Conclusion: Vision and Re-Vision;

Biography

Lisa Regan