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Palgrave The Womans Historical Novel British Women Writers 1900-2000 by D. Wallace
The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat Barker._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Entering into History: The Woman Citizen and the Historical Novel, 1900-1929 Histories of the Defeated: Writers Taking Side in the 1930s Writing the War and After: Wicked Ladies and Wayward Women in the 1940s Hollow Men and Homosexual Heroes: Exploring Masculinity in the 1950s The Return of the Repressed: Maternal Histories in the 1960s Selling Women's History: Popular Historical Fiction in the 1970s 'Herstory' to Postmodern Histories: History as Dissent in the 1980s Dialogues with the Dead: History and the Sense of an Ending, 1990-2000 Postscript Bibliography Index_x000D_