The Woman's Historical Novel British Women Writers, 1900-2000

by Wallace, Diana

• ISBN13: 9780230223608
• ISBN10: 0230223605
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been underrated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, now available for the first time in paperback, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century.

Author Biography

DIANA WALLACE is Reader in English and Head of Division of English at the University of Glamorgan, UK. Her publications include Sisters and Rivals in British Womens Fiction, 1914-39 (Macmillan, 2000) and articles in Gothic Studies, Critical Survey and Studies in the Literary Imagination.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Entering into History: The Woman Citizen and the Historical Novel, 1900-1929

Histories of the Defeated: Writers Taking Side in the 1930s

Writing the War and After: Wicked Ladies and Wayward Women in the 1940s

Hollow Men and Homosexual Heroes: Exploring Masculinity in the 1950s

The Return of the Repressed: Maternal Histories in the 1960s

Selling Women's History: Popular Historical Fiction in the 1970s

""Herstory"" to Postmodern Histories: History as Dissent in the 1980s Di

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