Engendering fictions : the English novel in the early twentieth century

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Engendering fictions : the English novel in the early twentieth century

Lyn Pykett

(Writing in history)

E. Arnold , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780340562772

内容説明

Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender. 'Engendering Fictions' challenges the claims that modernism represents a complete break with the past. The history of modernism has been a story of the removal of the 'great works' of modernist writing from the immediate material and historical circumstances of their origin, and their insertion into the timeless ideal order of the 'modern tradition'. Focusing on a wide range of authors, but particularly Woolf and Lawrence, Lyn Pykett takes issue with this representation of modernism and shows how traditional views offer an impoverished response to the writing of the early twentieth century.

目次

  • Part 1 Back to the future - the contexts of the modern: introduction - writing in history
  • rethinking modernism
  • gender, degeneration, renovation
  • writing and gender at the turn of the century. Part 2 Writing and gender, gender and writing - English fiction in the early 20th century: introduction - the new feminine realism
  • Dorothy Richardson - thinking the feminine
  • Virginia Woolf - rethinking realism, remaking fiction
  • male writers and the new forms of feminine.
巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780340645772

内容説明

Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? This question is the mainspring of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She offers a re-examination of the dawning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in certain 19th-century discourses: discourses about women, discourses about gender, and other discourses that are organized in gendered terms. The text challenges the claims of both self-professed modernists, amd their later academic appropriators, that modernism represents a complete break with the past. The history of modernism has been a story of removal of the "great works" of modernist writing from the immediate material and historical circumstances of their birth, and their insertion into the timeless ideal order of the "modern tradition". Focusing on a wide range of authors, but particularly Woolf and Lawrence, this book takes issue with this historical blindness and shows how traditional views offer an impoverished response to the writing of the early 20th century.

目次

  • Part 1 Back to the future - the contexts of the modern: introduction - writing in history
  • rethinking modernism
  • gender, degeneration, renovation
  • writing and gender at the turn of the century. Part 2 Writing and gender, gender and writing - English fiction in the early 20th century: introduction - the new feminine realism
  • Dorothy Richardson - thinking the feminine
  • Virginia Woolf - rethinking realism, remaking fiction
  • male writers and the new forms of feminine.

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    E. Arnold , Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press

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