Women in the house of fiction : post-war women novelists
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Women in the house of fiction : post-war women novelists
Macmillan, 1992
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-213) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780333286340
Description
A study of post-war European and American writing by women. The author uses "the house of fiction" as a metaphor for containment and a reminder that fiction isn't placeless. Writers discussed include Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing, Tillie Olsen, Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 After the war: Simone de Beauvoir
- Doris Lessing
- Nathalie Sarraute. Part 2 Displaced persons: Christina Stead
- Jean Rhys
- Elizabeth Smart
- Tillie Olsen
- Francoise Sagan. Part 3 The middle group: Iris Murdoch
- Edna O'Brien
- Margaret Drabble
- Mary McCarthy. Part 4 The movement: Joyce Johnson
- Kate Millett
- Erica Jong
- Diana Johnson
- Marilyn French. Part 5 Divided amongst ourselves: Fay Weldon
- Margaret Atwood
- Angela Carter
- Toni Morrison
- Joyce Carol Oates.
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: pbk ISBN 9780333286357
Description
The novel was once upon a time the genre women felt at home in. This wide- ranging and detailed study of contemporary novelists explores the forms of nostalgia (shared by many feminist critics) for a 'woman's novel'; and the subtle or savage strategies which have turned the house of fiction upside down. The result is a critique of the nature of narrative now; and a celebration of the energies that are undoing our definitions of women's work.
Table of Contents
After the War.- Displaced Persons.- The Middle Ground.- The Movement Divided Amongst Ourselves.
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