Step-daughters of England
Subtitle: British women modernists and the national imaginary
By: Jane Garrity.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Richardson, Dorothy Miller, 1873-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Butts, Mary, 1890-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation.; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.; Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Mothers and daughters in literature.; Lesbians in literature.
Description: By reading the work of the British modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - through the lens of material culture, this text argues that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent, complicated relation to Britain's imperial history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-338) and index.