British experimental women's fiction, 1945-1975 : slipping through the labels /: slipping through the labels. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrew Radford, Hannah Van Hove.
• Editors: Radford, Andrew, 1972-; Van Hove, Hannah
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: (Re)mapping the Post-War British Literary Landscape.- Part I: Conditions of Experiment: Post-war Contexts.- Chapter 2: Feeling 'The High-voltage Current of the General Pass': Experiments in Subjectivity in British Women's Fiction in the Wake of World War II.- Chapter 3: A Precarious Vision: Hallucination and the Short Story in Post-War Britain.- Chapter 4: Whose Sister? 'Convenient Pigeonholes', Peter Owen and the Publishing of Anna Kavan.- Chapter 5: Contacts, Landings: The Holocaust and Late Modernist Form in Eva Figes and Eva Tucker.- Part II: Belonging Nowhere? Experimental Women Writers Reconsidered.- Chapter 6: No Country for Old Maids? Housing the Mid-Century Fiction of Ivy Compton-Burnett.- Chapter 7. Anna Kavan's Ice: Postwar Experimentalism and the Fiction of the Anthropocene.- Chapter 8: Sweetly Sings the Donkey and Experimentalism after the Angry Young Men.- Chapter 9: 'Designing its Own Shadow': Tracing Ann Quin's Reiterative Experimental Processes.- Chapter 10: 'Simply as an Instrument': The Female Characters of Christine Brooke-Rose.- Chapter 11: Brigid Brophy's In Transit, or the Post-war Novel's Transition from an 'Exhausted' to a 'Replenished' Form.- Chapter 12: Experimenting in the Ditch: Buchi Emecheta's Early Novels of Transformation.- Chapter 13: Afterword.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 820.992870945; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and cricitism; Experimental fiction, English -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030727666
• Related ISBNs: 9783030727659
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