British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own

ISBN-13: 9780333721957 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 293 str.

Phyllis Lassner

Opis

In British Women Writers of World War II, Phyllis Lassner offers a challenging analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith and Storm Jameson debated the justness' of World War II. Lassner questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women who redefined such pieties as patriotism and duty and heroism and victimization.

Recenzje

'Lassner is a masterful reader of these fictions; her readings are supported by intertextual analysis, and biographical details are used to illuminate, but not stand in for, interpretation.' - Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction 'Differences that Divide and Bind' From Fascism in Britain to World War: Dystopic Warnings 'The Future is our Business': Dystopic Visions of Hitler's Victory No Place Like Home: The British Home Front 'Perpetual Civil War': Domestic Romances of Britain's Fate Keeping Faith with the Conquered: Fictions of the European Home Front Defending Europe's Others Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

PHYLLIS LASSNER teaches Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, and Writing at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, essays on British women writers of the interwar and World War II periods, and the introduction to a rediscovered feminist classic, the 1910 novel by Karin Michaelis, The Dangerous Age.