Loving Arms : British Women Writing the Second World War /

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For the five women whose work is examined in Loving Arms - Stevie Smith, Katharine Burdekin, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and Doris Lessing - this last point was particularly relevant. Their positions as women within a patriarchal, militarist culture that was externally threatened by an overtly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schneider, Karen, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women and literature.
Women.
War stories, English.
War and literature.
English literature > Women authors.
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Femmes > Grande-Bretagne.
Recits de guerre anglais > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Grande-Bretagne > Litterature et guerre.
Litterature anglaise > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
World War, 1914-1918 > Women > Great Britain.
War stories, English > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain > Literature and the war.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Narrating War
  • 1. Discerning the Plots
  • 2. Inscribing An/Other Story: Katharine Burdekin, Stevie Smith, and the Move toward Rebellion
  • 3. Double-Voiced Discourse: Elizabeth Bowen's Collaboration and Resistance
  • 4. Re-Plotting the War(s): Virginia Woolf's Radical Legacy
  • 5. A Different Story: Doris Lessing's Great Escape
  • Coda: As Time Goes By.

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