The feminine middlebrow novel, 1920s to 1950s
Subtitle: class, domesticity, and bohemianism
By: Nicola Humble.
Publisher: New York; Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions; Social classes in literature; Middle class in literature; Bohemianism in literature; Home in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.257-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. 'Books Do Furnish a Room': Readers and Reading 7; title: 2. 'Not Our Sort': The Re-Formation of Middle-Class; title: Identities 57; title: 3. Imagining the Home Io8; title: 4. The Eccentric Family 149; title: 5. A Crisis of Gender? 197.