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Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty

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Editors:
  1. Alice Ridout

    1. Department of English and Film, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada

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  2. Roberta Rubenstein

    1. American University, USA

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  3. Sandra Singer

    1. University of Guelph, Canada

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Alice Ridout, Roberta Rubenstein, Sandra Singer
      Pages 1-9

  5. “Timing Is All”: Personal Reminiscences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. The Golden Notebook, Serendipity, and Me

      • Paul Schlueter
      Pages 173-180

    3. I Remember Doris Lessing and Her Illimitable Novel

      • Jonah Raskin
      Pages 181-193

    4. Timing Is All: The Golden Notebook Then and Now

      • Florence Howe
      Pages 195-208

    5. The Golden Notebook: First Impact and Revisionary Reading

      • Gillian Beer
      Pages 209-211

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 213-221
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About this book

Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essays collected in this volume provide fresh analyses along with appreciative memoirs for 21st century readers of this well-known masterpiece.

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"Fifty years after the publication of The Golden Notebook, a new generation of critics responds to Doris Lessing's masterpiece. These essays illuminate the novel's sources in Lessing's life and times; show what it has meant to generations of readers; and engage in wide-ranging discussions of the novel's politics, ethics, and aesthetics, and of its complex relationship to modernism and postmodernism. Anyone interested in Doris Lessing's writing will enjoy this collection!" - Toril Moi, Duke University, James B. Duke Professor of Literature, Duke University, USA

"This volume perfectly captures why Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was such a landmark book. The collection contains a wonderful mixture of personal memories and fresh critical approaches to the novel that not only place it in its moment of publication but also make clear how it changed things for fiction to come." - Susan Watkins, Reader in Twentieth-Century Women's Prose Fiction, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English and Film, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada

    Alice Ridout

  • American University, USA

    Roberta Rubenstein

  • University of Guelph, Canada

    Sandra Singer

About the editors

Sophia Barnes, University of Sydney, Australia Dame Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge, UK Julie Cairnie, University of Guelph, Canada Cornelius Collins, Fordham University, USA Florence Howe, CUNY Graduate Center, USA Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University, USA Mark Pedretti, Case Western Reserve University, USA Jonah Raskin, Sonoma State University, USA Alice Ridout, Algoma University, Canada Roberta Rubenstein, American University, USA Paul Schlueter, Southern Illinois University, USA Sandra Singer, University of Guelph, Canada

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