Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars

by Alison Light

Book Overview

Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we recognise the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars.
From the traumatic aftermath of the First World War, Forever...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415861896
• ISBN13: 9780415861892
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"