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Women's fiction of the Second World War : gender, power, and resistance
- Title
- Women's fiction of the Second World War : gender, power, and resistance / Gill Plain.
- Author
- Plain, Gill.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR888.W66 P53 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 207 pages; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-201) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prelude to War -- 3. Safety in Sanctity: Dorothy L. Sayers's Marriage of Convenience -- 4. Faith in a 'Watching Brief': Stevie Smith and the Religion of Fascism -- 5. 'Breaking the Mould': Virginia Woolf and the Threat of War -- 6. Weathering the Storm -- 7. Violation of a Fiction: Between the Acts and the Myth of 'Our Island History' -- 8. Constructing the Future Through the Past: Naomi Mitchison's Brave New World -- 9. From Alienation to Absence: Avoiding the War in The Heat of the Day -- 10. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0312164130 (cloth)
- 0312164149 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96026694
- OCLC
- 34932781
- ocm34932781
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries