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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Werlock, Abby H. P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2000]
Subjects:
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Regina Barreca
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Abby P. Werlock
  • Iris Murdoch: mapping the country of desire / Roberta White
  • "Transformed and translated": the colonized reader of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos space fiction / Susan Rowland
  • P.D. James and the dissociation of sensibility / Eric Nelson
  • Retrofitting the Raj: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the uses and abuses of the past / Judie Newman
  • Anita Brookner: on reaching for the sun / Kate Fullbrook
  • "Witness to their vanishing": Elaine Feinstein's fictions of Jewish continuity / Phyllis Lassner
  • "Women like us must learn to stick together": lesbians in the novels of Fay Weldon / Patricia Juliana Smith
  • Crossing boundaries: the female artist and the sacred word in Byatt's Possession / Deborah Denenholz Morse
  • Emma Tennant: the secret lives of girls / Marilyn Wesley
  • Margaret Drabble: chronicler, moralist, artist / Mary Rose Sullivan
  • To pose or not to po