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Women Writing Modern Fiction

A Passion for Ideas

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  • © 2003

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  1. Janice Rossen
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Janice Rossen
      Pages 1-8

  3. Darkness in the Mind

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The World Gone Mad in Wartime

      • Janice Rossen
      Pages 11-33

    3. Gothic and Fabulist Tales

      • Janice Rossen
      Pages 34-57

    4. Grieving and Madness

      • Janice Rossen
      Pages 58-79

  4. Passion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Romance

      • Janice Rossen
      Pages 83-111

    3. Betrayal

      • Janice Rossen
      Pages 112-133

  5. Wit and Reason

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Academic and Detective Novels

      • Janice Rossen
      Pages 137-158

    3. ‘The Higher Common Sense’

      • Janice Rossen
      Pages 159-175

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 176-193
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About this book

Many women writers in twentieth-century Britain were fascinated by the individual thought processes of their characters. Women Writing Modern Fiction draws connections between the works of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Olivia Manning, Iris Murdoch and A.S. Byatt, who dramatize darkness in wartime, gothic terror, madness and romantic betrayal, yet celebrate the triumph of rationality and 'The Higher Common Sense'. With irony, detachment, wit and high intelligence, they bring us acrobatic tales of the mind.

About the author

JANICE ROSSEN is Senior Research Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. She has written The World of Barbara Pym, Philip Larkin: His Life's Work, and The University in Modern Fiction: When Power is Academic, in addition to a biography of Philip Toynbee. She has co-edited volumes on 1930s British novelists and Ageing and Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity.

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