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At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s

Contributors:

By (Author) Robin Hackett
Edited by Freda Hauser
Edited by Gay Wachman

ISBN:

9781611491050

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

University of Delaware Press

Publication Date:

1st January 2009

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Literature: history and criticism

Dewey:

810.99287

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

248

Dimensions:

Width 167mm, Height 243mm, Spine 19mm

Weight:

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.

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