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OverviewAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work on women’s writing by shedding new light on a group of authors commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative in their styles and politics. The neologism ‘interfeminism’ – coined to partner Kristin Bluemel’s ‘intermodernism’ – locates this group chronologically and ideologically between two ‘waves’ of feminism, whilst also forging connections between the political and cultural monoliths that have traditionally overshadowed them. Drawing attention to the strengths of this ‘out-of-category’ writing in its own right, this volume also highlights how intersecting discourses of gender, class and society in the interwar and postwar periods pave the way for the bold reassessments of female subjectivity that characterise second and third wave feminism. The essays showcase the stylistic, cultural and political vitality of a substantial group of women authors of fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and journalism including Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson, Nancy Mitford, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Rumer Godden, Attia Hosain, Doris Lessing, Kamala Markandaya, Susan Ertz, Marghanita Laski, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Pargeter, Eileen Bigland, Nancy Spain, Vera Laughton Matthews, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Comyns, Shelagh Delaney, Stevie Smith and Penelope Mortimer. Additional exploration of the popular magazines Woman’s Weekly and Good Housekeeping and new material from the Vera Brittain archive add an innovative dimension to original readings of the literature of a transformative period of British social and cultural history. List of contributors: Natasha Periyan, Eleanor Reed, Maroula Joannou , Lola Serraf, Sue Kennedy, Ana Ashraf, Chris Hopkins, Gill Plain, Lucy Hall, Katherine Cooper, Nick Turner, Maria Elena Capitani, James Underwood, and Jane Thomas. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sue Kennedy (University of Hull (United Kingdom)) , Jane ThomasPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Volume: 85 ISBN: 9781802077841ISBN 10: 1802077847 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 03 February 2023 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Sue Kennedy and Jane Thomas Part I: Women Within and Beyond: Visions of ‘This Island’ 1930-1960 1. 'Pacifism , Fascism and The Crisis of Civilization’: Vera Brittain, Storm Jameson and Nancy Mitford in the 1930s Natasha Periyan 2. Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Leisure in Woman’s Weekly, 1930 Eleanor Reed 3. ‘Unsettled’ and ‘Unsettling’ Women: Migrant Voices After the War Maroula Joannou Part II: Women Bearing Witness: The Temperature of War 4. Supporting and Resisting the Myth of the Blitz: Ambiguity in Susan Ertz's Anger in the Sky (1943) Lola Serraf 5. ‘The Lure of Pleasure’: Sex and the Married Girl in Marghanita Laski’s To Bed with Grand Music (1946) Sue Kennedy 6. The Ambivalence of Testimony in The Heat of the Day (1949), Elizabeth Bowen Ana Ashraf 7. Re-presenting Wrens: Nancy Spain's Thank you Nelson (1945), Eileen Bigland's The Story of the WRNS (1946), Vera Laughton Matthews' Blue Tapestry (1948) and Edith Pargeter's She Goes to War (1942) Chris Hopkins Part III: Women Writing Men: Interwar, War and Aftermath 8. ‘We must feed the men’: Pamela Hansford Johnson’s Maternal Plotting. Too Dear For My Possessing (1940), An Avenue of Stone (1947) and A Summer to Decide (1948) Gill Plain 9. Men of the House: Oppressive Husbands and Displaced Wives in Second World War and Post-War Literature (Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier) Lucy Hall 10. British Women Writing War: The Case of Storm Jameson Katherine Cooper Part IV: New Realities for Women: A Forward Glance 11. Barbara Comyns and New Directions in Women’s Writing Nick Turner 12. A New Reality: Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey (1958) Maria Elena Capitani 13. Stevie Smith: Poetry and Personality James Underwood 14. ‘Whoever She Was’: Penelope Mortimer, Beyond the Feminine Mystique Jane ThomasReviews'This new collection of essays is a welcome addition to scholarship on twentieth-century women's writing. [...] This is a recuperative project that insists on a dismissal of middlebrow from our critical lexicon in favour of an appreciation of 'interfeminism'. Latent throughout are attempts to answer unspoken questions: did this period produce women's writing that merits critical attention? And just how innovative was it? Where was its energy? Its revolt? Its exigency? Everywhere, this collection asserts, we just have to read it.'Lydia Fellgett, Women: A Cultural Review 'This new collection of essays is a welcome addition to scholarship on twentieth-century women’s writing. [...] This is a recuperative project that insists on a dismissal of middlebrow from our critical lexicon in favour of an appreciation of ‘interfeminism’. Latent throughout are attempts to answer unspoken questions: did this period produce women’s writing that merits critical attention? And just how innovative was it? Where was its energy? Its revolt? Its exigency? Everywhere, this collection asserts, we just have to read it.'Lydia Fellgett, Women: A Cultural Review Author InformationSue Kennedy is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of Hull. Jane Thomas is Emeritus Professor of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Hull, where she was also Director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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