British women writing fiction / edited by Abby H.P. Werlock ; foreword by Regina Barreca.

Other author Werlock, Abby H. P.
Format Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxiv, 330 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
English fiction--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain. --History. --20th century.
English fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.

Contents Foreword / Regina Barreca -- Introduction / Abby H.P. Werlock -- Iris Murdoch: mapping the country of desire / Roberta S. White -- "Transformed and translated": the colonized reader of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos space fiction / Susan Rowland -- P.D. James and the dissociation of sensibility / Eric Nelson -- Retrofitting the Raj: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the uses and abuses of the past / Judie Newman -- Anita Brookner: on reaching for the sun / Kate Fullbrook -- "Witness to their vanishing": Elaine Feinstein's fictions of Jewish continuity / Phyllis Lassner -- "Women like us must learn to stick together": lesbians in the novels of Fay Weldon / Patricia Juliana Smith -- Crossing boundaries: the female artist and the sacred word in A.S. Byatt's Possession / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Emma Tennant: the secret lives of girls / Marilyn C. Wesley -- Margaret Drabble: chronicler, moralist, artist / Mary Rose Sullivan -- To pose or not to pose: the interplay of object and subject in the works of Angela Carter / Dee Goertz -- During mother's absence: the fiction of Michèle Roberts / Clare Hanson -- Navigating the interior journey: the fiction of Jeanette Winterson / Jan Rosemergy -- Sea changes: African-Caribbean and African women writers in England / Laura Niesen de Abruña -- Muriel Spark: beginning again / John Glavin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99006471
ISBN0817309829 (alk. paper)
ISBN0817309810 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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