Engendering Fictions: - English Novel in the Early Twentieht Century: Print on demand Title

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Lyn Pykett
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.1995
• EAN: 9780340562772
• ISBN: 978-0-340-56277-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 233 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity