At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s

by Robin Hackett (Editor), Freda Hauser (Editor), Gay Wachman (Editor)

Overview

This book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the meanings of Englishness. They reject analyses of texts as chronicles of personal psychological development in favor of analyses that assume texts are shaped by their authors' public intellectual involvement. In addition, they offer detailed, specific explorations of ways in which British women in the 1930s narrativize empire and war. Thus they will resonate with significance for readers in the early twenty-first century for women empire and war, as well as terror and security, are part of the discourse of everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611491050
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Robin Hackett is associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.
Freda Hauser is an independent scholar.
Gay Wachman is retired from the State University of New York-Old Westbury.