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Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity M. Joannou

Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity By M. Joannou

Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity by M. Joannou


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An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity Summary

Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62 by M. Joannou

An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

About M. Joannou

MARY JOANNOU is Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of 'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-1938 and Contemporary Women's Writing: From the Golden Notebook to the Colour Purple. She edited Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History and volume eight of the Palgrave History of British Women's Writing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice The People's War Austen and Englishness Englishness as History Present Laughter My Ain Folk 'Indias of the Mind' In and Out of Africa Bibliography Index

Additional information

NLS9781349330799
9781349330799
1349330795
Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62 by M. Joannou
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2016-02-07
228
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