Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928–1968

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-19

3. Women’s Ways of Writing

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   Pages 20-61

4. Wars and Rumours of Wars

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   Pages 62-98

5. Marginalities of Race and Class

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   Pages 99-144

6. Men, Women, Sex and Gender

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   Pages 145-184

7. Women in a Changing Society: Conclusion

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   Pages 185-203

8. Back Matter

   Pages 204-248

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In Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 , Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new-wave feminism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels, Maslen analyses how writers chose to represent such issues as pacifism and the threat of fascism, war, race and class, and gender, exploring in the process how the writers' priorities affect their decisions on how to write.

• fiction
• gender
• novel
• women

Maslen provides academic readers with a useful tool for understanding a difficult period. Choice

• Queen Mary College, University of London, UK

  Elizabeth Maslen

ELIZABETH MASLEN teaches courses on twentieth-century literature at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She has written on Doris Lessing for the British Council series, Writers and their Work, and several articles on such twentieth-century writers as W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Winifred Holtby, Ted Hughes, Naomi Mitchison, and Karol Capek.

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