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Men and women writers of the 1930s : the dangerous flood of history
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Title
Men and women writers of the 1930s : the dangerous flood of history / Janet Montefiore.
ISBN
0203359453
0203372018
0203376218
0415068924
0415068932
1134915012
1280057467
661005746X
9780203359457
9780203372012
9780203376218
9780415068925
9780415068932
9781134915019
9781280057465
9786610057467
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages)
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Notes
English.
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Summary
"Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is an original and important study of memory and gender in the literature of this tragic decade. Montefiore asks two principal questions: 'What part has memory played in the political literature of and about the 1930s?'and 'What were the roles of women, both as writers and as symbols, in constructing the literature?' ... Montefiore's analysis of issues such as mass unemployment, fascism, the tensions in pre-war Yugoslavia and 'appeasement' is shockingly relevant to society today. Anti-fascist historical novels, the post-war memoirs of 'Auden generation' writers, travel writing and neglected women poets are discussed at length"--Jacket
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Montefiore, Jan. Men and women writers of the 1930s. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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. 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
Marginal subjectivities
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. 'Underservedly forgotten': women poets of the thirties
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 others
5. Parables of the past: a reading of some anti-Fascist historical novels
Realism versus fantasy?
Lukacs, Marxist humanism and other stories
present in the past: Jack Lindsay and Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sexuality and socialism: Naomi Mitchison
Listening to Minna: Sylvia Townsend Warner and historical realism
6. Collective and individual memory: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
'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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