Anna Kavan: Mid-Century Experimental Fiction

by Victoria Walker

This first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by reading her comparatively alongside her contemporaries, especially Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark and Doris Lessing. Taking Kavan's fiction as pivotal to understanding trends of experimentalism that emerged across the middle of the twentieth century, it offers close readings of her distinctive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474478948
• ISBN13: 9781474478946
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"