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"British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining. This book offers an informal, jargon-free introduction to the fiction of sixteen contemporary writers either brought up or now living in England. Book jacket."--Jack...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Werlock, Abby H. P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
1900-1999
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Women authors.
English fiction.
English fiction > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Regina Barreca
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Abby P. Werlock
  • Iris Murdoch: mapping the country of desire / Roberta White
  • "Transformed and translated": the colonized reader of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos space fiction / Susan Rowland
  • P.D. James and the dissociation of sensibility / Eric Nelson
  • Retrofitting the Raj: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the uses and abuses of the past / Judie Newman
  • Anita Brookner: on reaching for the sun / Kate Fullbrook
  • "Witness to their vanishing": Elain.

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