Men and women writers of the 1930s : the dangerous flood of history /

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"Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is an original and important study of memory and gender in the literature of this tragic decade. Montefiore asks two principal questions: 'What part has memory played in the political literature of and about the 1930s?'and 'What were the roles...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Montefiore, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Temas:
1900-1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Authorship > Sex differences > History > 20th century.
Sex role in literature.
Memory in literature.
Self in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Art d'écrire > Différences entre sexes > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authorship > Sex differences
English literature
Historiography
Literature and history
Memory in literature
Self in literature
Sex role in literature
Women and literature
Great Britain > History > George V, 1910-1936 > Historiography.
Great Britain > History > George VI, 1936-1952 > Historiography.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1910-1936 (George V) > Historiographie.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1936-1952 (George VI) > Historiographie.
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Remembering the 1930s
  • Politics and collective memory
  • Looking back in irony
  • 'What about the women?' The sexual politics of memory
  • Memorials of their time
  • Neglected classics: Storm Jameson and Claud Cockburn
  • 2. pram in the hall: men and women writing the self in the 1930s
  • Case-histories versus the 'undeliberate dream'
  • Case-studies from the Auden Generation
  • Women in and out of history
  • Marginal subjectivities
  • Gendering the self: Marion Milner and Rebecca West
  • 3. Vamps and victims: images of women in the left-wing literature of the 1930s
  • Women as signs
  • Devouring mothers and revengeful spinsters: women in the plays of Auden, Isherwood and Spender
  • Class stereotypes: the expensive whore and the washerwoman
  • Poetry and the symbolic feminine: Rickword, Day Lewis and others
  • 4. 'Underservedly forgotten': women poets of the thirties
  • buried tradition
  • Taking sides: women and political poetry
  • 'The men who die': women poets remembering the Great War
  • Women poets and the Audenesque style: Naomi Mitchison and Stevie Smith
  • Irony and tradition: Ruth Pitter and Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Traditional lyrics: E.J. Scovell, Valentine Ackland and others
  • 5. Parables of the past: a reading of some anti-Fascist historical novels
  • Realism versus fantasy?
  • Lukacs, Marxist humanism and other stories
  • present in the past: Jack Lindsay and Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Sexuality and socialism: Naomi Mitchison
  • Listening to Minna: Sylvia Townsend Warner and historical realism
  • 6. Collective and individual memory: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
  • 'typical Englishwoman' and her hybrid book
  • Collective memory and the grand narratives
  • Black lamb and grey falcon
  • Micro-narrative: Rebecca West's own journey
  • Writer as subject: diary versus book.

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