Women's Writing 1945-1960: After the Deluge (Hardcover, 2003)

Chronology Introduction; J.Dowson PART 1: THE LEGACY OF WAR - CONTINUITY AND CHANGE Legacies of the Past: Postwar Women Looking Forward and Back; E.Maslen Resisting Nostalgia: Elizabeth Bowen's A World of Love; J.Briggs Criminal Desires: Women's Crime Writing in the 1940s and 1950s; L.Peach 'The Same Sky': World War II and British Women's Writing for Stage and Screen; C. Ylee PART 2: THE HOME - RETREAT AND RESTRAINT 'No Home of One's Own': Elizabeth Taylor's At Mrs Lippincote's; J.Brannigan Souls Astray: Belonging and the Idea of Home: Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day, Betty Miller's On the Side of the Angels and Death of the Nightingale and Muriel Spark's Memento Mori; S.Sceats 'At home everywhere and nowhere': Denise Levertov's 'Domestic' Muse; A.Entwistle PART 3: GENDER, LOVE AND MARRIAGE Nancy Mitford and the Pursuit of Love; M.Joannou Retreating into History? Historical Novels by Women Writers, 1945-60; D.Wallace Writing A Man's World: An Exploration of Three Works by Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Renault and Cecil Woodham Smith; K.Bell Female Masculinity in Iris Murdoch's Early Fiction; T.Grimshaw PART 4: ACROSS THE THRESHOLD - SPIRITUALITY, COLONISATION AND SUBJECTIVITY The Presentation of the Self in Doris Lessing's Martha Quest; K.Fullbrook 'Going Home': Exile and Nostalgia in the Writing of Doris Lessing; S.Watkins 'The Raw and the Cooked': Barbara Pym and Claude Levi-Strauss; C.Hanson 'There is a sweetness in willing self-surrender'?: Self-loss and Renewal in the Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings, Kathleen Raine and Stevie Smith; J.Dowson Index