Women’s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity [electronic resource] : The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62 /
Joannou, M.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The mobile woman and the migrant voice -- The peoples war -- Austen and Englishness -- Englishness as history -- Present laughter -- My ain folk -- Indias of the mind -- In and out of Africa.
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.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Sociology.
Literature—Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.
Literary Theory.