Author: Deborah PhilipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Women's Fiction 1945-2005: Writing Romance
Author: Deborah PhilipsWomen's Fiction 1945-2005
Author: Deborah PhilipsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441149511
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their popularity, these novels remain largely outside the 'canon' of women's writing, and are often unacknowledged by feminist literary criticism. However, these texts clearly touched a nerve with a largely female readership, and so offer a means of charting the changes in ideals of femininity, and in the tensions and contradictions in gender identities in the post-war period. Their analysis offers new insights into the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of what a woman could and should be over the last half century. Through her analysis of women's writing and reading, Philips sets out to challenge the distinction between 'popular' and 'literary' fiction, arguing that neat categories such as 'popular', 'middle brow' and 'serious fiction' need more careful definition.
Women's Fiction 1945-2005
Author: Deborah PhilipsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826487467
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The paperback edition of major survey of popular women's fiction by wide range of North American and British writers.
Women's Fiction
Author: Deborah PhilipsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781472593917
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Women's Fiction of the Second World War
Author: Gill PlainPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474471706
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book examines the relationship between war and gender through the analysis of literary texts. Focusing on the fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers, Stevie Smith, Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison and Elizabeth Bowen during the 1930s and 1940s, the book considers the different and sometimes contradictory ways in which British women writers responded both to the threat of war and to actual conflict in this period.
Happily Ever After?
Author: Niamh BakerPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312032333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book seeks to fill a noticeable gap in the survey of twentieth-century women's fiction- the postwar period from the 1940s to about 1960.
A Woman in Berlin
Author: Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312426119
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
Women's Fiction
Author: Deborah PhilipsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441150226
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present. Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Choice
Author: The Ship of Brides
Author: Jojo MoyesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069815634X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary voyage to England—aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier’s captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navy’s ironclad sanctions. And for Frances Mackenzie, the complicated young woman whose past comes back to haunt her far from home, the journey will change her life in ways she never could have predicted—forever.