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The Testing of Barbara Pym - London, the Wilderness Years, and the Rewards of Age (2024 ed.)
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The Testing of Barbara Pym - London, the Wilderness Years, and the Rewards of Age (2024 ed.)
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The Testing of Barbara Pym, a companion volume to The Making
of Barbara Pym (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), completes a
comprehensive analysis of Pym’s novels and her life, focusing on
her complex view of the necessity of change at both the individual
and cultural levels. Newly published archival material supports
this treatment of Pym’s vision of a changing world – a vision
premised upon the principle of continuity, a linking together of
past, present, and future. In her novels published from 1955-1980,
beginning with Britain’s emergence from post-war austerity, Pym
portrays, in an optimistic fashion, several changing aspects of
British culture: expansion of the suburbs, acceptance of homosexual
men, erosion of the class system, inclusivity in the Anglican
Church. But with these changes, new strains emerge as well; the
principle of continuity undergoes radical testing and is then
emphatically reasserted. Likewise, despite upheavals to established
patterns in her life, chiefly the inability to publish her work,
Pym persisted in cultivating such elements of continuity as she
could, an effort rewarded, while she was in rural retirement, by a
return to the publishing world. Thus, in both Pym’s novels and
her life, continuity survives the duress of testing circumstances.
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Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
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Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Emily Stockard
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Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
Edition: |
2024 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-139666-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
3-03-139666-9 |
Barcode: |
9783031396663 |
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