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Title British women writing fiction / edited by Abby H.P. Werlock ; foreword by Regina Barreca
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 330 pages)
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": Elain
Summary "British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining. This book offers an informal, jargon-free introduction to the fiction of sixteen contemporary writers either brought up or now living in England. Book jacket."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English fiction -- History and criticism
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Women authors
English fiction
English fiction -- Women authors
Women and literature
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Werlock, Abby H. P
ISBN 0585300917
9780585300917
9780817391348
0817391347