Winifred Holtby's Social Vision: 'Members One of Another'

by Lisa Regan

Overview

Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138664456
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/21/2016
Series:	Gender and Genre
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: ‘A Corporate Adventure’; Chapter 1 Between a ‘Community of Place’ and a ‘Community of Choice’: Anderby Wold and The Crowded Street; Chapter 2 Travel and the ‘Two-Dimensional Effect’ in the Land of Green Ginger; Chapter 3 Societies and Social Experiments in Poor Caroline; Chapter 4 Mandoa, Mandoa! and ‘the Altogetherness of Everything’: Imperial Unity and Transnational Complicity; Chapter 5 ‘Members One of Another’: Narrating the Nation in South Riding; conclusion Conclusion: Vision and Re-Vision;