This volume contributes to the vibrant, ongoing recuperative work
on women's writing by shedding new light on a group of authors
commonly dismissed as middlebrow in their concerns and conservative
in their styles and politics. The neologism 'interfeminism' -
coined to partner Kristin Bluemel's 'intermodernism' - locates this
group chronologically and ideologically between two 'waves' of
feminism, whilst also forging connections between the political and
cultural monoliths that have traditionally overshadowed them.
Drawing attention to the strengths of this 'out-of-category'
writing in its own right, this volume also highlights how
intersecting discourses of gender, class and society in the
interwar and postwar periods pave the way for the bold
reassessments of female subjectivity that characterise second and
third wave feminism. The essays showcase the stylistic, cultural
and political vitality of a substantial group of women authors of
fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and journalism including Vera
Brittain, Storm Jameson, Nancy Mitford, Phyllis Shand Allfrey,
Rumer Godden, Attia Hosain, Doris Lessing, Kamala Markandaya, Susan
Ertz, Marghanita Laski, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Pargeter, Eileen
Bigland, Nancy Spain, Vera Laughton Matthews, Pamela Hansford
Johnson, Dorothy Whipple, Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier,
Barbara Comyns, Shelagh Delaney, Stevie Smith and Penelope
Mortimer. Additional exploration of the popular magazines Woman's
Weekly and Good Housekeeping and new material from the Vera
Brittain archive add an innovative dimension to original readings
of the literature of a transformative period of British social and
cultural history. List of contributors: Natasha Periyan, Eleanor
Reed, Maroula Joannou , Lola Serraf, Sue Kennedy, Ana Ashraf, Chris
Hopkins, Gill Plain, Lucy Hall, Katherine Cooper, Nick Turner,
Maria Elena Capitani, James Underwood, and Jane Thomas.
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