Title Brave new causes : women in British postwar fictions / Deborah Philips and Ian Haywood

Published London ; Washington : Leicester University Press, 1998

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Description 171 pages ; 25 cm Contents 1. Rereading the fifties -- 2. Women writers, working heroines -- 3. 'The New People': literature and eugenics in postwar Britain -- 4. Half-crown houses: the crisis of the country house in the postwar romance -- 5. 'A generation of inheritors': the career girl novel -- 6. Bachelor girls: the glamour of work in the postwar romance -- 7. Starched caps: nurse-heroines -- 8. 'White-coated girls': doctor-heroines -- 9. Bad girls: femininity, delinquency and fiction Summary This work represents a major remapping of the literary history of the 1950s. It reveals the importance of women, hitherto underestimated, in postwar society. Also, it offers a reinterpretation of many familiar texts of the period Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [156]-162) and index Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Women employees in literature. Women in literature. Working class women in literature. World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence. Author Haywood, Ian, 1958- LC no. 97016934 ISBN 071850058X 0718500598 (paperback)

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