British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of their Own ISBN-13: 9780333721957

ISBN-13: 9780333721957

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Lassner, P.

Release Date: 01-03-1998

Languages: English

Edition: 1998

Number Of Pages: 303

Package Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.0 inches

Details: About the Author

PHYLLIS LASSNER teaches Womens Studies, Jewish Studies, and Writing at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, essays on British women writers of the interwar and World War II periods, and the introduction to a rediscovered feminist classic, the 1910 novel by Karin Michaelis, The Dangerous Age.

Product Description

In British Women Writers of World War II , Phyllis Lassner offers a challenging analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith and Storm Jameson debated the `justness of World War II. Lassner questions prevailing approaches to womens war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women who redefined such pieties as patriotism and duty and heroism and victimization.

Review

Lassner is a masterful reader of these fictions; her readings are supported by intertextual analysis, and biographical details are used to illuminate, but not stand in for, interpretation. – Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin, Madison