Step-daughters of England : British women modernists and the national imaginary /

By reading the work of the British modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - through the lens of material culture, this text argues that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent, complicated relation to Britain's imperial...

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Main Author:	Garrity, Jane
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; 2003.
Subjects:	Richardson, Dorothy M. > (Dorothy Miller), > 1873-1957 > Criticism and interpretation. Warner, Sylvia Townsend, > 1893-1978 > Criticism and interpretation. Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation. Butts, Mary, > 1890-1937 > Criticism and interpretation. English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain. Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Mothers and daughters in literature. Lesbians in literature. Warner, Sylvia Townsend, > 1893- > Criticism and interpretation. Butts, Mary, > 1890-1937. Richardson, Dorothy M. > (Dorothy Miller), > 1873-1957. Warner, Sylvia Townsend, > 1893-1978. Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941. English literature. English literature > Women authors. Modernism (Literature) Nationalism and literature. Women and literature. Great Britain. Modernisme (cultuur) Vrouwen. Letterkunde. Engels. Butts, Mary. Woolf, Virginia. Richardson, Dorothy Miller. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. Frauenliteratur. Moderne. Literatur. Imperialismus. Nationalismus. Englisch. 1900 - 1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: conquering new worlds
women, modernism, and nationalism
1. Domesticating the empire: British womanhood and national culture
2. "Neither English nor civilized": Dorothy Richardson's spectatrix and the feminine crusade for global intervention
3. Encoding bi-location: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the primitive erotics of sapphic dissimulation
4. Mary Butts's England: racial memory and the daughter's mystical assertion of nationhood
5. Mapping "the body of our mother": national desire, imperial nostalgia, and language in Virginia Woolf
Epilogue: rebuilding the house of England.