| 書目名稱 | The Testing of Barbara Pym | | 副標題 | London, the Wilderne | | 編輯 | Emily Stockard | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/922/921029/921029.mp4 | | 概述 | Gives attention to neglected areas of Pym’s life.Completes a comprehensive study of each of Pym’s novels, including those posthumously published.Shows how Britain’s post-war years shaped the themes of | | 圖書封面 |  | | 描述 | .The Testing of Barbara Pym., a companion volume to?.The Making of Barbara Pym.?(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), completes a comprehensive analysis of Pym’s novels and her life, focusing on her complex view of the necessity of change at both the individual and cultural levels. Newly published archival material supports this treatment of Pym’s vision of a changing world – a vision premised upon the principle of continuity, a linking together of past, present, and future. In her novels published from 1955-1980, beginning with Britain’s emergence from post-war austerity, Pym portrays, in an optimistic fashion, several changing aspects of British culture: expansion of the suburbs, acceptance of homosexual men, erosion of the class system, inclusivity in the Anglican Church. But with these changes, new strains emerge as well; the principle of continuity undergoes radical testing and is then emphatically reasserted. Likewise, despite upheavals to established patterns in herlife, chiefly the inability to publish her work, Pym persisted in cultivating such elements of continuity as she could, an effort rewarded, while she was in rural retirement, by a return to the publishing world. Thus, in bo | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Literature and Cultural Studies; Novel; British and Irish Literature; Literature and Class; Women‘s writ | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39667-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-39669-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-39667-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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