Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62

by M. Joannou

Overview

An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349330805
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARY JOANNOU is Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of 'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-1938 and Contemporary Women's Writing: From the Golden Notebook to the Colour Purple. She edited Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History and volume eight of the Palgrave History of British Women's Writing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice 1

1 The People's War 12

2 Austen and Englishness 44

3 Englishness as History 64

4 Present Laughter 81

5 My Ain Folk 108

6 'Indias of the Mind' 134

7 In and Out of Africa 161

Notes 186

Bibliography 209

Index 222