Title It's my party : reading twentieth-century women's writing / edited by Gina Wisker

Published London ; Boulder, Colo. : Pluto Press, 1994

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Description 219 pages ; 22 cm Contents 1. Authenticating Romantic Fiction: Lady Chatterley's Daughter / Stuart Laing -- 2. It's My Party: American Bestsellers of the 1970s / Maria Lauret -- 3. Jean Rhys: Race, Gender and History / Maggie Humm -- 4. Acts of Defiance: Celebrating Lesbians / Gabriele Griffin -- 5. Weaving Our Own Web: Demythologising/Remythologising and Magic in the Work of Contemporary Women Writers / Gina Wisker -- 6. From Vases to Tea-sets: Screening Women's Writing / Marilyn Brooks -- 7. Love and Marriage in the Works of Winifred Holtby / Sally Brown -- 8. Croquet and Serial Killers: Feminism and Agatha Christie / Odette l'Henry Evans -- 9. Life on the Street: Pat Barker's Realist Fictions / Sue Anderson -- 10. Radical Taoism: Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction / Bruce Woodcock Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-215) and index Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Author Wisker, Gina, 1951- LC no. 93045416 ISBN 0745306799 (hbk.) 0745306802 (paperback)

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