The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945

Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Chronology 1920-1945 Introduction: Modernism, The Middlebrow and Modernity in Context; M. Joannou PART I: MAPPING MODERNISM Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Modernism; J. Goldman Gender in Modernism; B. Kime Scott The Art of Bi-Location: Sylvia Townsend Warner; M. Ellmann Exemplary Intermodernists; K. Bluemel PART II: CULTURAL HIERARCHY The Feminine Middlebrow Novel; N. Humble Women and Comedy; S. Blanch The Woman's Historical Novel; D. Wallace Crime Fiction; C. Kaplan PART III: GENDERED GENRES Poetry 1920-45; J. Dowson Drama 1920-1945; R. D'Monté The Woman Journalist; C. Clay PART IV: THE MOBILE WOMAN Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Women Writers; K. Gramich Women's Writing in the Second World War; G. Plain Women Writing Empire; L. Regan Myths of Passage: Paris and Parallax; T. Young Women Writing the City; D. Longworth Bibliography Electronic Resources Index