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Forever England Alison Light

Forever England By Alison Light

Forever England by Alison Light

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Summary

Shows how ideas of nation identity were bound up with notions of femininity and private life during the period between the wars. Alison Light looks at a range of writers from Ivy Compton-Burnett and Daphne du Maurier to Agatha Christie.

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Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars by Alison Light

No comparable study focusses on the English middle classes

Challenges male-based literary history of the interwar years by both left and right

Writers covered include: Ivy Compton-Burnett, Daphne du Maurier and Agatha Christie

About Alison Light

Alison Light

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 The demon in the house: the novels of I. Compton-Burnett; Chapter 2 Agatha Christie and conservative modernity; Chapter 3 'Peace in our time': Mrs. Miniver; Chapter 4 Daphne du Maurier's romance with the past Afterword; Appendix: Mrs. Miniver writes to The Times; Notes; Bibliography Index;

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NLS9780415861892
9780415861892
0415861896
Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars by Alison Light
Alison Light
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2013-12-12
300
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