Winifred Holtby's Social Vision

'Members One of Another'

Lisa Regan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317322894
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Feminist Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby's social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: ‘A Corporate Adventure’
• 1 Between a ‘Community of Place’ and a ‘Community of Choice’: Anderby Wold and The Crowded Street
• 2 Travel and the ‘Two-Dimensional Effect’ in The Land of Green Ginger
• 3 Societies and Social Experiments in Poor Caroline
• 4 Mandoa, Mandoa! and ‘the Altogetherness of Everything’: Imperial Unity and Transnational Complicity
• 5 ‘Members One of Another’: Narrating the Nation in South Riding
• Conclusion: Vision and Re-Vision
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index