Women Writing Modern Fiction: A Passion for Ideas ISBN-13: 9781349392469

ISBN-13: 9781349392469

Binding: Paperback

Author: Rossen, J.

Details: About the Author

JANICE ROSSEN is Senior Research Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. She has written The World of Barbara Pym, Philip Larkin: His Lifes Work, and The University in Modern Fiction: When Power is Academic, in addition to a biography of Philip Toynbee. She has co-edited volumes on 1930s British novelists and Ageing and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity.

Product Description

Many women writers in twentieth-century Britain were fascinated by the individual thought processes of their characters. Women Writing Modern Fiction draws connections between the works of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Olivia Manning, Iris Murdoch and A.S. Byatt, who dramatize darkness in wartime, gothic terror, madness and romantic betrayal, yet celebrate the triumph of rationality and The Higher Common Sense. With irony, detachment, wit and high intelligence, they bring us acrobatic tales of the mind.

Release Date: 01-01-2003

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches

Languages: english

Part Number: 26252371

Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003

Number Of Pages: 203