Editors:
- Considers a variety of forms and genres, from poetry and journalism to spy thrillers and science fiction
- Looks at women's writing in relation to changing attitudes surrounding race, class and sexuality
- Analyses women writer's interactions with global politics, ranging from the Holocaust to the end of Empire
Part of the book series: History of British Women's Writing (HBWW)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Changing Forms
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Front Matter
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Reconstructing Gender
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Expanding Genres
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About this book
Reviews
“Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins accomplished mapping of the literary-historical period between 1945 and 1975 is an excellent addition to Palgrave’s invaluable History of British Women’s Writing. Sixteen specially commissioned essays by well-known scholars and newly emergent critical voices insightfully ‘look back in gender’ at the diverse and eclectic range of writing emanating from the bomb sites of postwar London through to the pioneering days of the women’s liberation movement. An engaging, impeccably researched collection which is pleasingly wide in its scope features children’s literature, journalism and science fiction alongside migrant writing and experimental drama and poetry. This will be a ‘must read’ for students of literature, gender and history for many years to come.” (Mary Joannou, Emerita Professor of Women’s Writing and Literary History, Anglia Ruskin University, UK)></p></p>
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Southampton, UK
Clare Hanson
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School of Cultural Studies and Humanities, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Susan Watkins
About the editors
Clare Hanson is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Southampton, UK. She has published widely on the short story and on twentieth-century women’s writing and is the author of Hysterical Fictions: the Woman’s Novel in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2000), A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture in Britain, 1750-2000 (Palgrave, 2004) and Eugenics, Literature and Culture in Post-war Britain (2012). Between 2010 and 2012 she was co-editor of the journal Contemporary Women’s Writing. Her current research explores the relationship between genetics and the literary imagination.
Susan Watkins is Professor in the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is the author of Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice (Palgrave, 2001) and Doris Lessing (2010), and co-editor of Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2006) and Doris Lessing: Border Crossings (2009). She was Chair of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association from 2010-2014 and co-editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature from 2010-2015.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975
Book Subtitle: Volume Nine
Editors: Clare Hanson, Susan Watkins
Series Title: History of British Women's Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-47736-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47735-4Published: 22 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47736-1Published: 14 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-7840
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7859
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 305
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Gender Studies