This book is the first collection on the British author Rose
Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work
between modernism and the middlebrow, show Macaulay's attentiveness
to reformulating contemporary depictions of gender in her fiction,
and explore how her writing transcended and celebrated the
characteristics of genre, reflecting Macaulay's responses to
modernity. The book's focus moves from the interiorized self and
the psyche's relations with the body, to gender identity, to the
role of women in society, followed by how women, and Macaulay, use
language in their strategies for generic self-expression, and the
environment in which Macaulay herself and her characters lived and
worked. Macaulay was a particularly modern writer, embracing
technology enthusiastically, and the evidence of her treatment of
gender and genre reflect Macaulay's responses to modernism, the
historical novel, ruins and the relationships of history and
structure, ageing, and the narrative of travel. By presenting a
wide range of approaches, this book shows how Macaulay's fiction is
integral to modern British literature, by its aesthetic concerns,
its technical experimentation, her concern for the autonomy of the
individual, and for the financial and professional independence of
the modern woman. There are manifold connections shown between her
writing and contemporary theology, popular culture, the newspaper
industry, pacifist thinking, feminist rage, the literature of
sophistication, the condition of 'inclusionary' cosmopolitanism,
and a haunted post-war understanding of ruin in life and history.
This rich and interdisciplinary combination will set a new agenda
for international scholarship on Macaulay's works, and reformulate
contemporary ideas about gender and genre in twentieth-century
British literature.
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