Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968

by Elizabeth Maslen

In Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968, Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new-wave feminism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels, Maslen analyses how writers chose to represent such issues as pacifism and the threat of fascism, war, race and class, and gender, exploring in the process how the writers' priorities affect their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333729536
• ISBN13: 9780333729533
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.2"