All Her Faculties: The Representation of the Female Mind in the Twentieth-Century English Novel

by Claudia Rosenhan

Overview

This book offers original readings of twentieth-century English novels through the lens of the female intellect. In key texts by H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Dorothy L. Sayers, A. S. Byatt and more, the female scholar is shown to be depicted as transgressive and marginalized, confirming cultural understandings of rationality as male.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034317658
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	02/13/2014
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Claudia Rosenhan is a teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education. She has previously held academic positions in Britain, Switzerland and Australia and has published on a number of early twentieth-century authors, such as James Joyce, Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence.

Table of Contents

Contents: The Female Mind – Walking the Tightrope - The Female Mind Emerging in H. G. Wells’s Ann Veronica (1909) – Beyond the Arc Light - The Female Mind at Large in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow (1915) – Sheltered and Secluded - The Female Mind Confined in Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night (1935) – Insanity in the Academy - The Female Mind Unhinged in Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (1954) – Separate Spheres - The Female Mind Retired in David Lodge’s, Nice Work (1988) – Cycles of Continuance - The Female Mind Incarnate in A. S. Byatt’s Possession (1990) – All Her Faculties - The Female Mind as Spectre.