Louise McDonald

Clemence Dane (eBook, PDF)

Forgotten Feminist Writer of the Inter-War Years

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Produktbeschreibung

This feminist investigation of the works of Clemence Dane joins the growing body of research into the relationship of female-authored texts to the ideology and cultural hegemony of the Edwardian and inter-war period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000206012
• Artikelnr.: 59949117

Autorenporträt

Louise McDonald received her PH.D. in English on the topic of the writings of Clemence Dane at the University of Leicester. She is currently senior lecturer in English at Newman University. Her publications include: 'Clemence Dane's Fantastical Fiction and Feminist Consciousness' in Ehland, Christoph and Wachter, Cornelia (2016) Middlebrow and Gender 1980-1945 (Brill Rodopi), 'Softening Svengali: Film Transformations of Trilby and Cultural Change' in Cooke, Simon and Goldman, Paul (eds.) (2016) George du Maurier: Illustrator, Author, Critic London: Ashgate and 'From Victorian to Postmodern Negation: Enlightenment Culture in Thackeray's and Kubrick's Barry Lyndon' in Bloom, Abigail Burnham and Pollock, Mary Sanders (2011) Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation, New York: Cambria Press, She has also contributed articles on Clemence Dane and her work to The Literary Encyclopedia, Volume 1.2.1.08, Baldick, Chris and Childs, Peter (eds.) (2017) English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century, 1945-present.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Clemence Dane and the inter-war political, cultural and literary
context
Modernism and the Middlebrow
Feminist consciousness
Social ills and liberal solutions
Chapter 2: women's themes in inter-war drama
Women in the modern world
Contesting masculine abuses in plays about the past
Interpreting literary history
Chapter 3: Imperilled identities and submerged sexualities: romantic
pathology in the coming-of-age novel 1917-1927
Lesbian loss: the amor impossibilia
Romantic yearning in heterosexual contexts
Chapter 4: Domestic choices: companionate marriage or living as a seule
dame. Rejecting romance in gothic and saga writing 1924 - 1938
Fantastical fiction and female visionary experience
Family chronicles: women's journeys from domestication to professionalism
Chapter 5: Subverting the models of golden-age detective fiction
Detectives, villainy and masculinities
Investigative women
Foregrounding the woman's plot
Conclusion