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    Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces

    Teresa Gómez Reus, Terry Gifford (2013)

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    The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945

    Volume Eight

    Maroula Joannou in The History of British Women’s Writing (2013)

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    Women Writing the City

    The significance of the urban observer within recent cultural and literary criticism owes much to the writings of German cultural theorist Walter Benjamin on the flâneur: essays on Baudelaire, and his large, unfi...

    Deborah Longworth in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    Introduction: Modernism, Modernity, and the Middlebrow in Context

    This book discusses a broad spectrum of writing by women much of which is not widely-known, including forgotten drama, narratives of empire, opinion-sha** journalism, poetry originally published in small mag...

    Maroula Joannou in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    Drama, 1920–1945

    Women dramatists enjoyed considerable success between 1920 and 1945, a period that has traditionally but inaccurately been perceived as theatrically moribund.1 Yet censure was also directed towards women’s produc...

    Rebecca D’Monté in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    Exemplary Intermodernists: Stevie Smith, Inez Holden, Betty Miller, and Naomi Mitchison

    For most of the twentieth century, Modernism was not kind to British women writers. They have fared much better since the advent of the New Modernist Studies, evidence of which can be found in almost any antho...

    Kristin Bluemel in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    Caught in the Triple Net? Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Women Writers

    Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man famously declares: ‘When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nation...

    Katie Gramich in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    The Art of Bi-Location: Sylvia Townsend Warner

    In Sylvia Townsend Warner’s story ‘But at the Stroke of Midnight’ (1971), Aston Ridpath returns from his office expecting to find Lucy, his ‘ middle-aged, plain, badly kept, untravelled’ wife, probably potteri...

    Maud Ellmann in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    Women Writing Empire

    In 1924 Virginia Woolf attended the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley: a celebration of colonial unity showcasing commodities and goods from around the empire. Like the ritual of Empire Day and later the Em...

    Lisa Regan in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    Women and Comedy

    Until very recently, the central preoccupation of feminist critics and researchers working on twentieth-century literary culture has been to ensure that women’s contributions to Modernism are taken ‘seriously’...

    Sophie Blanch in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    Moving Back to ‘Home’ and ‘Nation’: Women Dramatists, 1938–1945

    At the height of the Battle of Britain in August 1940, Winston Churchill commended the RAF, but also rallied the nation, by stating that ‘This is a war of the unknown warriors […] The whole of the warring nati...

    Rebecca D’Monté in Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces (2013)

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    Myths of Passage: Paris and Parallax

    Given the kind of thinking, as well as some of the specific themes, that have entered into, if not transformed, the study of Modernism in recent years, it is difficult to understand why Hope Mirrlees’s ambitio...

    Tory Young in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    ‘Queens of Crime’: The ‘Golden Age’ of Crime Fiction

    The book and souvenir shop of the British Library, whose customers are an eclectic mix of international tourists and the odd researcher furtively seeking distraction from her current project in the reading roo...

    Cora Kaplan in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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    ‘Fritillary Fever’: Cultivating the Self and Gardening the World in the Writing of Clara Coltman Vyvyan

    Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gertrude Bell imagines ‘home’ as an ‘enclosed garden’, the starting point of separation for an outward journey which traverses the boundary between a containe...

    Niamh Downing in Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces (2013)

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    Introduction

    The idea behind this volume began to germinate on a long train journey after a conference in the north of Spain. With our newly acquired books and our laptops, we had hoped to spend the trip across the Spanish...

    Teresa Gómez Reus, Terry Gifford in Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces (2013)

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    ‘Dangerous Domestic Secrets’ on Trial in The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins

    Spaces of transit are commonly associated with travel and movement and with being on one’s way between two points, having departed but not yet arrived, as if in a liminal state of suspense or anticipation. Spa...

    Janet Stobbs Wright in Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces (2013)

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    Step** Out: ‘At Home’ or ‘From our Own Correspondent’? The Lady Writer or the Woman Journalist?

    ‘Aunt Julia […] thinks I am given over to the Evil One since I’ve become a journalist’ (Dixon [1894] 2004: 144), declares Mary Erle, one of the central characters in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s 1894 novel The Story of ...

    Valerie Fehlbaum in Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces (2013)

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    Early Women Mountaineers Achieve Both Summits and Publication in Britain and America

    ’some [philosophers] argue that space is itself a feature of the external world, whereas others regard space as a concept whereby the mind imagines something that is, in fact, quite different from space’ (Call...

    Terry Gifford in Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces (2013)

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    ‘Always Coming and Going’: The In-Between Spaces of Elizabeth Bowen’s Early Novels

    As an Anglo-Irish writer, Elizabeth Bowen’s own sense of home, and the location of her national identity, is uncertain. In a recent essay on the author, Vera Kreilkamp refers to the Anglo-Irish as ‘a colonial ...

    Emma Short PhD in Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces (2013)

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    Poetry, 1920–1945

    Revisionary anthologies were integral to the debates in conferences, books, and articles that considered women’s participation in the experimental avant-garde poetry associated with the 1920s, the left-wing pu...

    Jane Dowson in The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920–1945 (2013)

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