Titlebook: British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945—1975; Slipping Through the Andrew Radford,Hannah Van Hove Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable

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Introduction: (Re)Mapping the Post-War British Literary Landscape,dscape, 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, th

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Feeling “The High-Voltage Current of the General Pass”: Experiments in Subjectivity in British Womeng to contribute to recent work concerned with nuancing accounts of mid-twentieth-century literature. Focusing in particular on the differing ways in which women authors negotiated the tension between the particular and the general in their works, this chapter puts forward a reading of experimental w

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Whose Sister? “Convenient Pigeonholes”, Peter Owen and the Publishing of Anna Kavanllers’ and critics’ reliance on “convenient pigeonholes” when responding to experimental writing. It has been the “convenient pigeonholes” used by critics which have been the focus of much of the recent feminist literary critical return to the post-war decades. However, Kavan’s complaint is an indic

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Contacts, Landings: The Holocaust and Late Modernist Form in Eva Figes and Eva Tuckert cultural networks in postwar Britain: on the one hand the members of the Austrian–German diaspora that emerged in the wake of fascism, and on the other hand the group of late modernist writers exemplified by figures such as B. S. Johnson and Ann Quin. Both Figes’s . (1969), and Tucker’s . (1966) r

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No Country for Old Maids? Housing Ivy Compton-Burnett’s Mid-Century Fiction?numerous journalists and scholars have interpreted her writing as having very few obvious literary ancestors or successors, Radford proposes that Compton-Burnett provides a radical reimagining of the “country-house novel”, synonymous with male authors like Henry James, E. M. Forster, Ford Madox For

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Anna Kavan’s ,: Postwar Experimentalism and the Fiction of the Anthropoceneice age resulting from human action. Taking this as impetus and drawing from archival evidence of Kavan’s political and ethical outlook in the immediate postwar period, this chapter reads the novel alongside recent political and geological challenges to the concept of the Anthropocene. By considerin

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“Designing Its Own Shadow”: Ann Quin’s Reiterative Experimental Processesacross its different forms; letters, short stories, an autobiographical piece, Quin’s favourite of her books . (1969). Williams’s method of reading across different textual material demonstrates the pleasures of Quin’s highly allusive, suggestive, playful prose, and shows how her archive material en

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“Simply as an Instrument”: The Female Characters of Christine Brooke-Roseself to be an active feminist, she often writes intelligent, complex, detailed female characters who are aware of the gulf between themselves and their academic male counterparts. In . and ., Brooke-Rose dissects and plays with the passive/active dynamic in terms of female character and illuminates