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Sisters and rivals in British women's fiction, 1914-1939
- Title
- Sisters and rivals in British women's fiction, 1914-1939 / Diana Wallace.
- Author
- Wallace, Diana, 1964-
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR888.T76 W35 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 214 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "What happens when two women love the same man? How do they negotiate the conflict between the need for sexual fulfilment and their loyalty to the other woman who may be a friend or even a sister? This book examines female rivalry as a distinctive theme in women's fiction.
- As Diana Wallace shows the female-identified erotic triangle, where two women are rivals for the same man, is a narrative pattern that had a special resonance for women writers in the 1920s and 1930s, when a population imbalance led to a 'surplus' of women."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. 'An Age of Transition': Historical Context -- 2. Theorising Female Rivalry -- 3. Rewriting the Victorians: May Sinclair's Transitional Modernism -- 4. The 'Other Woman': Rebecca West's 'Difference of View' -- 5. A 'Shared Working Existence': Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby -- 6. 'My Second Self': Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain -- 7. The 'Recurring Dream' of Romance: Rosamond Lehmann -- App. 1. Census Population of the United Kingdom -- App. 2. Chronology of Main Legislation Relating to Women, 1914-39.
- ISBN
- 0312234333
- LCCN
- 00023347
- OCLC
- 505707896
- ocn505707896
- SCSB-3986882
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries