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Step-Daughters of England
Garrity
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Paperback. Reading literary texts through the lens of material culture, this study argues that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent and complicated relation to British imperial history. The work of Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf is examined. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 546.
Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects. Reading literary texts through the lens of material culture, this book makes a major contribution to the new modernist studies by arguing that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent and complicated relation to Britain's imperial history. Drawing on extensive archival research, Garrity takes as her point of departure the ubiquitous maternal and racial link to national identification during the interwar period. Each chapter foregrounds a different ... Read more
Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects. Reading literary texts through the lens of material culture, this book makes a major contribution to the new modernist studies by arguing that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent and complicated relation to Britain's imperial history. Drawing on extensive archival research, Garrity takes as her point of departure the ubiquitous maternal and racial link to national identification during the interwar period. Each chapter foregrounds a different ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719061646
SKU
V9780719061646
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