At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s
By (Author) Robin Hackett
Edited by Freda Hauser
Edited by Gay Wachman
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
University of Delaware Press
1st January 2009
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literature: history and criticism
810.99287
Physical Properties
Hardback
248
Width 167mm, Height 243mm, Spine 19mm
492g
Description
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 women empire and war, as well as terror and security, are part of the discourse of everyday life.
Author Bio
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.
