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Women's fiction of the Second World War : gender, power and resistance / Gill Plain.
- Title
- Women's fiction of the Second World War : gender, power and resistance / Gill Plain.
- Author
- Plain, Gill.
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 207 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p.[192]-201) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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
- 0748606610
- 0748608508
- LCCN
- gb^96080256^
- OCLC
- 36121338
- 35587645
- SCSB-12442113
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library