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At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s
Robin Hackett (Ed.)
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Description for At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s
Hardback. Editor(s): Hackett, Robin; Hauser, Freda; Wachman, Gay. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
This book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the meanings of Englishness. They reject analyses of texts as chronicles of personal psychological development in favor of analyses that assume texts are shaped by their authors' public intellectual involvement. In addition, they offer detailed, specific explorations of ways in which British women in the 1930s narrativize empire and war. Thus they will resonate with significance for readers in the early twenty-first century for ... Read more
This book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the meanings of Englishness. They reject analyses of texts as chronicles of personal psychological development in favor of analyses that assume texts are shaped by their authors' public intellectual involvement. In addition, they offer detailed, specific explorations of ways in which British women in the 1930s narrativize empire and war. Thus they will resonate with significance for readers in the early twenty-first century for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491050
SKU
V9781611491050
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About Robin Hackett (Ed.)
Robin Hackett is associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. Freda Hauser is an independent scholar. Gay Wachman is retired from the State University of New York-Old Westbury.
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