British women writing fiction
By: edited by Abby H. P. Werlock ; foreword by Regina Barreca.
Contributors: Werlock, Abby H. P.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Regina Barreca; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction / Abby P. Werlock; title: Iris Murdoch: mapping the country of desire / Roberta White; title: "Transformed and translated": the colonized reader of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos space fiction / Susan Rowland; title: P.D. James and the dissociation of sensibility / Eric Nelson; title: Retrofitting the Raj: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the uses and abuses of the past / Judie Newman; title: Anita Brookner: on reaching for the sun / Kate Fullbrook; title: "Witness to their vanishing": Elaine Feinstein's fictions of Jewish continuity / Phyllis Lassner; title: "Women like us must learn to stick together": lesbians in the novels of Fay Weldon / Patricia Juliana Smith; title: Crossing boundaries: the female artist and the sacred word in Byatt's Possession / Deborah Denenholz Morse; title: Emma Tennant: the secret lives of girls / Marilyn Wesley; title: Margaret Drabble: chronicler, moralist, artist / Mary Rose Sullivan; title: To pose or not to po