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Women in the house of fiction : post-War women novelists

Title
Women in the house of fiction : post-War women novelists / Lorna Sage.
Author
Sage, Lorna.
Publication
Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1992.

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Description
xi, 216 pages; 23 cm
Summary
A study of post-war European and American writing by women. The author uses "the house of fiction" as a metaphor for containment and a reminder that fiction isn't placeless. Writers discussed include Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing, Tillie Olsen, Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1945-1990
  • Women novelists
  • Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Women novelists > 20th century
  • Fiction
  • Frauenroman
  • Romanschriftstellerin
  • Vrouwelijke auteurs
  • Romans
  • Engels
  • Amerikaans
  • Roman
  • Englisches Sprachgebiet
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-213) and index.
Contents
Simone de Beauvoir -- Doris Lessing -- Nathalie Sarraute -- Christina Stead -- Jean Rhys -- Elizabeth Smart -- Tillie Olsen -- Francoise Sagan -- Iris Murdoch -- Edna O'Brien -- Margaret Drabble -- Mary McCarthy -- Joyce Johnson -- Kate Millett -- Erica Jong -- Diane Johnson -- Marilyn French -- Fay Weldon -- Margaret Atwood -- Angela Carter -- Toni Morrison -- Joyce Carol Oates.
ISBN
  • 0333286340
  • 9780333286340
  • 0333286359
  • 9780333286357
OCLC
  • ocm28065710
  • 28065710
  • SCSB-1994556
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library