Women's Fiction 1945-2005: Writing Romance
Title | Women's Fiction 1945-2005: Writing Romance PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Philips |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Women's Fiction 1945-2005
Title | Women's Fiction 1945-2005 PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Philips |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2007-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441149511 |
Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their popularity, these novels remain largely outside the 'canon' of women's writing, and are often unacknowledged by feminist literary criticism. However, these texts clearly touched a nerve with a largely female readership, and so offer a means of charting the changes in ideals of femininity, and in the tensions and contradictions in gender identities in the post-war period. Their analysis offers new insights into the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of what a woman could and should be over the last half century. Through her analysis of women's writing and reading, Philips sets out to challenge the distinction between 'popular' and 'literary' fiction, arguing that neat categories such as 'popular', 'middle brow' and 'serious fiction' need more careful definition.
Women's Fiction 1945-2005
Title | Women's Fiction 1945-2005 PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Philips |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 169 |
Release | 2006-04-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826487467 |
The paperback edition of major survey of popular women's fiction by wide range of North American and British writers.
Women's Fiction
Title | Women's Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Philips |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN | 9781472593917 |
Women's Fiction of the Second World War
Title | Women's Fiction of the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | Gill Plain |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2019-08-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474471706 |
This book examines the relationship between war and gender through the analysis of literary texts. Focusing on the fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers, Stevie Smith, Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison and Elizabeth Bowen during the 1930s and 1940s, the book considers the different and sometimes contradictory ways in which British women writers responded both to the threat of war and to actual conflict in this period.
Happily Ever After?
Title | Happily Ever After? PDF eBook |
Author | Niamh Baker |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780312032333 |
This book seeks to fill a noticeable gap in the survey of twentieth-century women's fiction- the postwar period from the 1940s to about 1960.
A Woman in Berlin
Title | A Woman in Berlin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2006-07-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0312426119 |
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.