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

ISBN-13: 9781138664456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

Lisa Regan;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Lisa Regan