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An invaluable and detailed critical analysis and record of a lively but undervalued literary community.
Synopsis
A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry offers a record and analysis of the publications, activities and achievements of a lively but undervalued literary community. A chronology and detailed bibliography of primary and secondary sources covering over 200 writers make this an invaluable reference source for both scholars and students.
Table of Contents
Chronology; Introduction ; Part I. 1900-45: Overview; 1. Lyrical androgyny: Alice Meynell, Frances Cornford, Vita Sackville-West and Elizabeth Daryush; 2. A public voice: war, class and women's rights; 3. Modernism, memory and masking: Mina Loy and Edith Sitwell; 4. 'I will put myself, and everything I see, upon the page': Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Anna Wickham and the dramatic monologue; Part II. 1945-1980: Overview; 5. Stevie Smith; 6. The post-war generation and the paradox of home; 7. The poetry of consciousness-raising; 8. Disruptive lyrics: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wendy Mulford and Denise Riley; Part III. 1980-2000: Overview; 9. 'These parts': identity and place; 10. Dialogic politics in Carol Ann Duffy and others; 11. Postmodern transformations: science and myth; 12. The renovated lyric: from Eavan Boland and Carol Rumens to Jackie Kay and the next generation.