Doris Lessing and the Forming of History / / Tom Sperlinger, Kevin Brazil, David Sergeant.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Brazil, Kevin,; Sergeant, David,; Sperlinger, Tom,
• MitwirkendeR: Barnes, Sophia,; Bentley, Nick,; Brazil, Kevin,; Collins, Cornelius,; Guy, Adam,; Hanson, Clare,; Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena,; Marcus, Laura,; Maslen, Elizabeth,; Punter, David,; Sergeant, David,; Sperlinger, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyondThe death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century world literature. This...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Timeline
• Introduction
• 1. Early Lessing, Commitment, the World
• 2. 'I'm an adolescent. And that's how I'm going to stay': Lessing and Youth Culture 1956-1962
• 3. Sequence, Series and Character in Children of Violence
• 4. The Politics of Form: The Golden Notebook and Women's Radical Literary Tradition
• 5. Readers of Fiction and Readers in Fiction: Readership and The Golden Notebook
• 6. From The Grass is Singing to The Golden Notebook: Film, Literature and Psychoanalysis
• 7. 'A funny thing laughter, what's it for?': Humour and Form in Lessing's Fiction
• 8. Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis
• 9. Lessing and Time Travel
• 10. Lessing's Interruptions
• 11. Lessing's Witness Literature
• 12. A Catastrophic Universe: Lessing, Posthumanism and Deep History
• Select Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index