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" The woman's historical novel : "
Diana Wallace.
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BL
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558089
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b386862
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Diana Wallace
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The woman's historical novel : : British women writers, 1900-2000\ Diana Wallace.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2005.
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(xiii, 269 pages)
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0230505945
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: 9780230505940
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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 -- Dialogues with the Dead: History and the Sense of an Ending, 1990-2000 -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.
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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 under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace traces its development across the century. In its popular forms, the historical novel has always offered women particular pleasures, including the thrills ofThe historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace traces its development across the century. In its popular forms, the historical novel has always offered women particular pleasures, including the thrills ofThe historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace traces its development across the century. In its popular forms, the historical novel has always offered women particular pleasures, including the thrills of",,,,,"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 under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace traces its development across the century. In its popular forms, the historical novel has always offered women particular pleasures, including the thrills of transgression and of 'masquerading' as men. Wallace shows how the historical novel has also offered women a way of re-imagining conventional history to encompass women's experience, as well as a form within which they could address the most urgent political and social issues of their day. The book combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Georgette Heyer, Naomi Mitchison, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Daphne du Maurier, Margaret Irwin, Mary Renault, 'Jean Plaidy', Dorothy Dunnett, Catherine Cookson, Mary Stewart, Phillipa Gregory, A.S. Byatt and Pat Barker.
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Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
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Palgrave Connect (Online service)
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