Forever England - Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars (Hardcover, New)

Most studies of the interwar years have focused on literary elites, rendering the era and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of the English character in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we recognize the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars.
From the traumatic aftermath of the First World War, "Forever England" traces the making of a conservative national temperament which could be defensive and protective, yet modernizing in outlook. In a series of literary analyses, Light defines this new version of "Englishness"; in particular, she looks at new kinds of readership and fiction, at the historical and emotional significance of the "whodunit," the burgeoning of historical romance, and the creation of a middlebrow culture.
As a feminist inquiry, "Forever England" argues fora social and political history that connects the interior structures of private life with their more public and national forms. It also makes the controversial proposal that feminism should come to terms with conservative, as well as radical, desires and their place in women's lives.
Scholarly and passionate, "Forever England" will appeal to those interested in the boundaries between literature and history and their different forms of story-telling, as well as the changing shapes of national and sexual identities.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1991
First published:	1991
Authors:	Alison Light
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-01661-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Bilingualism & multilingualism
LSN:	0-415-01661-4
Barcode:	9780415016612

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