The single woman, modernity, and literary culture : women's fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s /: women's fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Emma Sterry.
• Authors: Sterry, Emma
• Contents: The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture: An Introduction; The Single Woman; Modernity, Modernism, and the Middlebrow; Women's Writing and Literary Culture from the 1920s to the 1940s; Structure of the Study; Notes; 2 The Single Woman in Context: Modernity, Femininity, Sexuality; Women's Changing Lives in Modernity; The Impact of Modernity on Cultural Narratives About Femininity and Sexuality; The Typical Guises of the Modern Single Woman; The Less Obvious Guises of the Single Woman; Notes. 3 The Single Woman, the City, and the CountryThe Evolving City and Country in Modernity; Landscape and Literary Culture; Exploring Urban and Rural Landscapes: Locating the Single Woman in Women's Fiction of the 1920s to the 1940s; Notes; 4 The Single Woman, Bohemianism, and Domesticity; Rethinking Bohemianism and Domesticity in Modernity; Bohemianism, Domesticity, and Literary Culture; Negotiating Domestic Scripts and Bohemian Sensibilities in Women's Fiction of the 1920s to the 1940s; Notes; 5 The Single Woman, and the Public and the Private; The Public and the Private in Modernity. The Public and the Private in Literary CultureNavigating Public and Private Worlds: The Single Woman's Search for Subjectivity; Notes; 6 Afterword: Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.3/99287; Single women in literature; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature; American literature -- Women authors; English literature; English literature -- Women authors; Single women in literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Fiction; European Literature; North American Literature; British and Irish Literature; Literature; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319408293; 3319408291
• Related ISBNs: 3319408283; 9783319408286
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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