Mid-Century Women's Writing

Introduction: Politicizing the domestic and domesticizing politics - Melissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, and Ravenel Richardson
Part I: Introduction - Professionalizing the domestic - Megan Faragher
1 Professional identity and personal space in Mary Renault's Kind are her Answers and Return to Night- Victoria Stewart
2 Talking shop: Celia Fremlin and invisible work - Luke Seaber
3 'some thoroughly tiresome housekeeping crisis': Rebecca West's wartime journalism - Debra Rae Cohen
4 'Coldly kind': Calculating care in post-war British women's writing - Emily Ridge
Part II - Introduction: Nationalizing gender politics - Melissa Dinsman
5 New world women and the Labour party win in Marghanita Laski's The Village - Sarah E. Cornish
6 Beyond 'companionate marriage': Elizabeth Taylor's gendered critique of post-war consensus in A View of the Harbour and A Wreath of Roses - Genevieve Brassard
7 Dissident friendship and revolutionary love in the novels of Sabitri Roy and Sulekha Sanyal - Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay
8 The political theory of heaven: Religious nationalism, mystical anarchism, and the Spanish Civil War in Sylvia Townsend Warner's After the Death of Don Juan - Charles Andrews
Part III - Introduction: Women beyond the nation - Ravenel Richardson
9 'A woman is always a woman!': British women writers and refugees - Katherine Cooper
10 Families in a time of catastrophe: Anna Gmeyner's Manja, 1920-1938 - Phyllis Lassner
11 'Some other land, some other sea': Attia Hosain's fiction and nonfiction in Distant Traveller - Ambreen Hai
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