Alan Freeman

Broschiertes Buch

Imagined Worlds

Fiction by Scottish Women 1900-1935

Herausgegeben: Drescher, Horst W.

Beschreibung

This is a study of fiction by Scottish women spanning the late 1890s to the early 1930s. Seven authors are included: Violet Jacob, Mary and Jane Helen Findlater, Lorna Moon, Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir, and Nan Shepherd. It identifies a continuity of development within and between the women's careers. Each evolved from writing narratives expected of fiction aimed at the women's market to more innovative forms which increasingly questioned traditional values. From this perspective we can locate the authors in an intriguing relation to the contexts of Scottish literature, modernist sensibility, and to the feminism asserting itself in that age of upheaval.

Autor

The Author: Alan Freeman teaches literature in English at Yeditepe University in Istanbul. He has taught at the University of Edinburgh and Napier University in his native Scotland, and has written on various aspects of modern Scottish literature.

Produktdetails

• Scottish Studies International 36
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 53057
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9783631530573
• ISBN-10: 3631530579
• Artikelnr.: 27774932

Rezensionen

«On the whole, then, students of Scottish literature will feel grateful to Freeman for fostering the re-introduction of writers like the Findlaters into the Scottish literary canon, or rather, for suggesting, in line with other scholars interested in Scottish women writers, ways in which this canon can be redefined so as to make their inclusion not only possible but necessary. It is therefore to be hoped that Freeman's 'Imagined Worlds' will stimulate more detailed investigations into the fictional worlds of Jacob, the Findlaters, Carswell, Moon, Muir, and Shepherd.» (Silvia Mergenthal, Anglia, Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie)