Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity
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Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity

The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62

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eBook - PDF

Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity

The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62

About this book

An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice
  9. 1 The People’s War
  10. 2 Austen and Englishness
  11. 3 Englishness as History
  12. 4 Present Laughter
  13. 5 My Ain Folk
  14. 6 ‘Indias of the Mind’
  15. 7 In and Out of Africa
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index