Narrative Settlements : : Geographies of British Women's Fiction between the Wars / / Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt.

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• VerfasserIn: Nesbitt, Jennifer Poulos,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Narrative Settlements --; 1. The Act of Passing By: Walking, the City Novel, and Its Subjects --; 2. The Production of Sexuality in the Country House Novel --; 3. Subjunctive Spaces and Subjects: Male Bodies and the Plots of Imperialism --; 4. Settling for Less or Bargaining for More? Regional Novels and the Body Politics of Englishness --; Epilogue: End Papers --; Notes --; Work Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442677548; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442677548
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt.

During the interwar period, shifting attitudes toward empire dovetailed with women's achievement of citizenship, placing women at the centre of debates about what England would be. Responding to these cultural conditions, women writers used novels of place to analyze relationships among space, self, and nation in England, thereby establishing new ways for the country to view itself.Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt's Narrative Settlements resituates British women's writing between the wars in light of postcolonial theories of the novel and feminist geography. Reading works by Winifred Holtby, Vita Sackville-West, Angela Thirkell, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Nesbitt argues that renewed attention to setting provides a methodological base for a more nuanced understanding of the aesthetic preoccupations of women writers between the wars. She provides not only attentive readings of literature during this contentious time, but a convincing argument for looking beyond modernism to locate the significance of interwar literary production.