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02608aam a2200337 i 4500 001 3E937BA8072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 200327t20202020enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1474426174 020 $a 9781474426176 035 $a (OCoLC)1145930747 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CDX $d MUU $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR888.W6 $b S94 2020 082 04 $a 823/.914099287 $2 23 100 1 $a Sweeney, Carole, $e author. 245 10 $a Vagabond fictions : $b gender and experiment in British women's writing, 1945-1970 / $c Carole Sweeney. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Edinburgh University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a vii, 285 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Filling in a blank spot in the history of twentieth-century women's writing, Carole Sweeney examines the work of five experimental writers, Anna Kavan, Brigid Brophy, Christine Brooke-Rose, Eva Figes and Ann Quin, whose writing has been neglected in accounts of the development of post-1945 British literature. Each of these writers, Sweeney argues, engaged in diverse formal experiments that challenge the critical commonplace suggesting that after the end of aesthetic modernism the mid-century British novel was characterised by a wholesale return to realism. Avoiding any insistence on a straightforward opposition between literary realism and experimentalism, this study draws upon original archival and biographical material and offers close readings of the creative and critical work of these 'vagabond' writers, demonstrating how they wrote against aesthetic and thematic conventions of their times and negotiated (and often repudiated) concepts of 'feminine' writing."--Publisher's website 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-279) and index. 505 0 $a Critical Terrains -- Anna Kavan : Glass Girls -- Brigid Brophy : a 'comet in her day' -- Christine Brooke-Rose : 'un écrivain [sic] dite éxperimentale' -- Eva Figes : 'There must be freedom to experiment' -- Ann Quin : Forms forming themselves. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a English fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a English fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a English fiction $x Women authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910866 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020502.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3E937BA8072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search