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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Women and Literary Culture
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Front Matter
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Feminism and Fiction: Evolution and Dissent
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Front Matter
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Writing the Nation: Difference, Diaspora, Devolution
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Front Matter
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About this book
Reviews
“It is a culturally sensitive, and nuanced collection of chapters, and will doubtless prove invaluable for researchers, teachers and students in the field. It will find a wide readership among literary historians and literary critics, alongside feminist theorists and scholars of the history of feminism, gender and cultural diversity. … it brings a much-needed perspective of multiplicity and variation to the more general study of literature.” (Karin Sellberg, Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 33 (95), 2018)
“Since 1970, when feminist literary criticism and history began to appear, women's writing has entered an explosive new period of diversity and creativity. In the ambitious and capacious volume, co-editors Mary Eagleton and Emma Parker bring the history of British women's writing up to the present. In sixteen chapters, contributors review the astonishing range of work over the past five decades, put it in historical context, and explore ways to analyze it by genre, nationality, generation, and technology. The result is an indispensable tool for understanding how women's writing has developed and where its future may take it.” (Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita of English, Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Princeton University, USA)
“This is the only history and account of British women's writing from 1970 that manages to cover - brilliantly and succinctly in one volume - not only the entire range of literary genres and sub-genres of British women's writingof the period, but also non-literary genres such as digital media and journalism. The volume also addresses with verve and in depth, intellectual, political and institutional contexts that have shaped women's writing in the period. Covering writers from grande dames to contemporary rising stars, theatre to life writing, the essays are consistently accessible, lively, challenging and packed with expertly informed discussion. This book will certainly become the key companion text for anyone studying or interested in women's studies, women's writing, contemporary culture and writing.” (Patricia Waugh, Professor in the Department of English Studies, Durham University, UK)Editors and Affiliations
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Leeds Beckett University, UK
Mary Eagleton
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University of Leicester, UK
Emma Parker
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present
Book Subtitle: Volume Ten
Editors: Mary Eagleton, Emma Parker
Series Title: History of British Women's Writing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-29481-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29480-7Published: 29 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-57582-4Published: 21 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29481-4Published: 29 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-7840
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7859
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 288
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Literary History