Introduction: (re)mapping the post-war British literary landscape

Radford, A. and Van Hove, H. (2021) Introduction: (re)mapping the post-war British literary landscape. In: Radford, A. and Van Hove, H. (eds.) British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975: Slipping Through the Labels. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 1-37. ISBN 9783030727659 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72766-6_1)

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Abstract

This introductory chapter situates post-war experimental fiction by women writers who have remained largely overlooked within the British literary landscape, evaluating their body of work in historical, conceptual and critical terms. In doing so, it hopes to offer a new and vibrant take on twentieth-century literary history, refusing the familiar trajectory of aesthetic modernism, late-modernism, social realism (anti-modernism), postmodernism, thereby expanding and complicating assessments of the post-war period. As well as evaluating these literary taxonomies in relation to the fiction of the authors studied in this collection and (re)positioning their writing in literary-historical terms, this introduction contributes to the rethinking and re-evaluating of ideas around gender, experimentalism, race and canonicity in post-war Britain.

Item Type:Book Sections (Introduction)
Additional Information:eBook ISBN: 9783030727666.
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Van Hove, Hannah and Radford, Dr Andrew
Authors: Radford, A., and Van Hove, H.
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature
Research Group:Modern and Contemporary Literature
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9783030727659
Published Online:24 August 2021

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