British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975: Slipping Through the Labels (Paperback)

Chapter 1: Introduction: (Re)mapping the Post-War British Literary Landscape.- Part I: Conditions of Experiment: Post-war Contexts.- Chapter 2: Feeling “The High-voltage Current of the General Pass”: Experiments in Subjectivity in British Women’s Fiction in the Wake of World War II.- Chapter 3: A Precarious Vision: Hallucination and the Short Story in Post-War Britain.- Chapter 4: Whose Sister? “Convenient Pigeonholes”, Peter Owen and the Publishing of Anna Kavan.- Chapter 5: Contacts, Landings: The Holocaust and Late Modernist Form in Eva Figes and Eva Tucker.- Part II: Belonging Nowhere? Experimental Women Writers Reconsidered.- Chapter 6: No Country for Old Maids? Housing the Mid-Century Fiction of Ivy Compton-Burnett.- Chapter 7. Anna Kavan’s Ice: Postwar Experimentalism and the Fiction of the Anthropocene.- Chapter 8: Sweetly Sings the Donkey and Experimentalism after the Angry Young Men.- Chapter 9: “Designing its Own Shadow”: Tracing Ann Quin’s Reiterative Experimental Processes.- Chapter 10: “Simply as an Instrument”: The Female Characters of Christine Brooke-Rose.- Chapter 11: Brigid Brophy’s In Transit, or the Post-war Novel’s Transition from an “Exhausted” to a “Replenished” Form.- Chapter 12: Experimenting in the Ditch: Buchi Emecheta’s Early Novels of Transformation.- Chapter 13: Afterword