Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Kate Macdonald is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK. Klappentext This interdisciplinary book sets a new agenda for international scholarship on Macaulay, and reformulates contemporary ideas about gender and genre in 20th-century British literature. Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary book sets a new agenda for international scholarship on Macaulay, and reformulates contemporary ideas about gender and genre in 20th-century British literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 Introduction, Kate Macdonald Part I: The Body and the Mind 2 Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: Gender, anxiety and protest in Non-Combatants and Others , Jessica Gildersleeve 3 The dangerous ages of Rose Macaulay, Cynthia Port Part II: Public and Private Gender Identity 4 'Imprisoned in a cage of print': Rose Macaulay, journalism and gender, Sarah Lonsdale 5 'Mentally neutral': An improbable tale of gender in Geneva, Juliane Römhild Part III: Women in Society 6 "Thought is everything ": Women's work in Rose Macaulay's First World War novels, Melissa Edmundson 7 The domestic modern, the primitive and the middlebrow in Crewe Train , Ann Rea 8 Constructing a public persona: Rose Macaulay's non-fiction, Kate Macdonald Part IV: Genre in Language 9 'Ghosts of words': gendering history, language and pleasure in They Were Defeated (1932), Diana Wallace 10 The Towers of Trebizond. Language and the joys and paradoxes of the modern world, Maria Stella Florio Part V: Landscapes in Genre 11 A catastrophic imagination: Rose Macaulay and the cosmopolitan Pleasure of Ruins , Christina Svendsen 12 Rose Macaulay's 'Turkey Book': The Towers of Trebizond as ironic travelogue, Lisa Regan 13 Annotated Bibliography of works by and about Rose Macaulay, Kate Macdonald Works Cited Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Kate Macdonald, Kate (Reading University Macdonald
• Assisted by: Kate Macdonald (Editor), Kate (Reading University Macdonald (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138206175
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20617-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Gender and Genre; Gender and Genre
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form