British women writing fiction [electronic resource] / edited by Abby H. P. Werlock ; foreword by Regina Barreca. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Regina Barreca -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Abby P. Werlock -- Iris Murdoch: mapping the country of desire / Roberta White -- "Transformed and translated": the colonized reader of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos space fiction / Susan Rowland -- P.D. James and the dissociation of sensibility / Eric Nelson -- Retrofitting the Raj: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the uses and abuses of the past / Judie Newman -- Anita Brookner: on reaching for the sun / Kate Fullbrook -- "Witness to their vanishing": Elaine Feinstein's fictions of Jewish continuity / Phyllis Lassner -- "Women like us must learn to stick together": lesbians in the novels of Fay Weldon / Patricia Juliana Smith -- Crossing boundaries: the female artist and the sacred word in Byatt's Possession / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Emma Tennant: the secret lives of girls / Marilyn Wesley -- Margaret Drabble: chronicler, moralist, artist / Mary Rose Sullivan -- To pose or not to po

9780817309824 9780585300917 (electronic bk.)


English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--20th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century

PR830.W6 / B75 2000