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Women's fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction represent the complex nexus of continuity and change in the British consciousness following the Second World War. These essays restore the cultural and literary significance of women as readers and writers, examining their various transmutations of international, national and domestic politics. The women-centered writing illuminated in this collection also enhances the tradition-in-process of twentieth-century women's literature. Writers discussed include Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, Agatha Christie and Stevie Smith.
Women's Writing, 1945-1960: After the Deluge FROM THE PUBLISHER
These essays demonstrate that the 1940s and 1950s were not a dull or reactionary period for feminism and women's writing. They investigate notable 'literary' novelists - Elizabeth Bowen, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark - alongside the hugely popular Nancy Mitford, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Vera Brittain, Agatha Christie and Rosemary Sutcliff. Collectively, the works reveal the pleasures and repressions of women writers and readers in this period as they negotiated with postwar ideals of femininity and domesticity. In addition to fiction - ranging from the historical to crime-writing - the book also discusses poetry, drama, adaptations of women's novels for television and cinema, and non-fiction.
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