British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of their Own

British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of their Own
ISBN-10
0230503780
ISBN-13
9780230503786
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
1998-03-01
Publisher
Springer
Author
P. Lassner

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.

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