Title Women's fiction of the Second World War : gender, power, and resistance / Gill Plain.

Publication Info.	New York : St. Martin's Press, [1996]
	©1996

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PR888.W66 P53 1996 1996	Available	---

Description	xi, 207 pages ; 25 cm
Contents	Prelude to war -- Safety in sanctity: Dorothy L. Sayers's marriage of convenience -- Faith in a 'watching brief': Stevie Smith and the religion of fascism -- 'Breaking the mould': Virginia Woolf and the threat of war -- Weathering the storm -- Violation of a fiction: Between the acts and the myth of 'our island history' -- Constructing the future through the past: Naomi Mitchison's brave new world -- From alienation to absence: avoiding the war in The heat of the day.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-201) and index.
Subject	English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	English fiction -- Women authors.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.
	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
	Women and literature.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	English fiction.
	War stories, English -- History and criticism.
	War stories, English.
ISBN	0312164149 paperback
	0312164130 cloth