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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s Janet Montefiore

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s By Janet Montefiore

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s by Janet Montefiore

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This critique of the 1930s examines in detail the contribution of women writers through their memoirs, fiction and poetry to the literature of this decade. The author challenges the traditional literary analyses of this dynamic and politically charged period.

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s Summary

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History by Janet Montefiore

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature?
Montefiore's topical analysis of 1930s mass unemployment, fascist uprise and 'appeasement' is shockingly relevant in society today. Issues of class, anti-fascist historical novels, post war memoirs of 'Auden generation' writers and neglected women poets are discussed at length. Writers include:
* George Orwell
* Virginia Woolf
* W.H. Auden
* Storm Jameson
* Jean Rhys
* Rebecca West

Men and Women Writers of the 1930s Reviews

"This is a superb account of the role of memory in the examination of literature. Montefiore writes very penetratingly about Virginia Woolf and Rebecca West but also tries to restore the neglected talents of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Storm Jameson to their proper place in our attention. The decade has been well-ploughed as a field, but never so intelligently. On the male side of the account, she subjects George Orwell's writing to the best critique that I have ever read."
-Christopher Hitchens, "The Washington Post, 12/8/96

Table of Contents

1. Remembering the 1930s Politics and collective memory, Looking back in irony, "What about the women?" The sexual politics of memory, Memorials of their time, Neglected classics: Storm Jameson and Claud Cockburn, 2. The pram in the hall: men and women writing the self in the 1930s Case-histories versus the "undeliberate dream", Case-studies from the Auden Generation, Women in and out of history, Gendering the self: Marion Milner and Rebecca West, 3. Vamps and victims: images of women in the left-wing literature of the 1930s Women as signs, Devouring mothers and revengeful spinsters: women in the plays of Auden, Isherwood and Spender, Class stereotypes: the expensive whore and the washerwoman, Poetry and the symbolic feminine: Rickword, Day Lewis and others 4. "Undeservedly forgotton": women poets of the thirties A buried tradition, Taking sides: women and political poetry, "The men who die": women poets remembering the Great War, Women poets and the Audenesque style: Naomi Mitchison and Stevie Smith, Irony and tradition: Ruth Pitter and Sylvia Townsend Warner, Traditional lyrics: E.J. Scovell, Valentine Ackland and other, 5. Parables of the past: a reading of some anti-Fascist historical novels Realism versus fantasy?, Lukacs, Marxist humanism and other stories, The present in the past: Jack Lindsay and Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sexuality and socialism: Naomi Mitchison, Listening to Minna: Sylvia Townsend Warner and historical realsim, 6. Collective and individual memory: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon A "typical Englishwoman" and her hybrid book, Collective memory and the grand narratives, Black lamb and grey falcon, Micro-narrative: Rebecca West's own journey, Writer as subject: diary versus book.

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GOR003800553
9780415068932
0415068932
Men and Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History by Janet Montefiore
Janet Montefiore
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1996-09-05
278
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