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British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of their Own 1998th Edition
Author(s): P. Lassner (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 1998
- Edition: 1998th
- Language: English
- Print length: 303 pages
- ISBN-10: 0333721950
- ISBN-13: 9780333721957
Book Description
In British Women Writers of World War II , Phyllis Lassner offers a challenging analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith and Storm Jameson debated the `justness’ of World War II. Lassner questions prevailing approaches to women’s war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women who redefined such pieties as patriotism and duty and heroism and victimization.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Lassner is a masterful reader of these fictions; her readings are supported by intertextual analysis, and biographical details are used to illuminate, but not stand in for, interpretation.’ – Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin, Madison
About the Author
PHYLLIS LASSNER teaches Women’s Studies, Jewish Studies, and Writing at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, essays on British women writers of the interwar and World War II periods, and the introduction to a rediscovered feminist classic, the 1910 novel by Karin Michaelis, The Dangerous Age.
