Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. vi, 295 pages; 24 cm

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
3. Women intellectuals > Great Britain > History > 20th century
4. Women in literature
5. English fiction > Women authors
6. Women intellectuals
7. Englisch
8. Frauenroman
9. Akademikerin Motiv
10. Hochschulbildung Motiv
11. Great Britain

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. Ch. 1 Adeline's (Bankrupt) Education Fund: Woolf, Women, And Education -- History and Ideological Debates -- Woolf's Childhood and Education -- A Woman's Culture -- Resistance -- Solutions -- ch. 2 Virginia Woolf's Night And Day: An Academic Exercise? -- A Country at War: Women, Work, and Education in 1920s Britain -- A Critique of Language: Knowledge as Differentiation -- Unfit Women -- Writing the Self/Writing the (M)Other -- Marriage as Resolution or Capitulation? -- ch. 3 Between Women: Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night -- Dorothy L. Sayers and 1930s Britain -- Gaudy Mothers -- Monstrous Mothers -- Murderous Mothers -- Harriet and Peter -- A Marriage of Two Minds? -- ch. 4 "All I Had To Sacrifice Was Interest And Love": The Scholar As (M)Other In Margaret Drabble's The Millstone -- Feminism, Independence, Narcissism -- Writing as Resistance and Empowerment -- Sex and Punishment: Drabble's Scarlet Letter -- The (Wo)man is Nothing: The Work is All -- Marriage, No, Motherhood is the Answer -- ch. 5 "Outside The Natural Order": Anita Brookner's Academic Women -- "Girls who are alone too much need not suffer in this day and age. They can do research." -- Marriage is the Answer -- Again -- Thatcherite Educational Reform -- Women at University in the 1970s-80s -- Disappointed/Disappointing Mothers -- "Form Will Save Us All" -- ch. 6 "Stray Words On Crumpled Paper": Knowledge, Love, And Identity In Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries -- Relatives and Relativity: Restored Mothers -- Writing as Transitional Space -- Following Alice Down the Rabbit Hole of Personal Relationships -- Same Sex Attraction as the Mirror to the Self -- Daddy's Little Girl: Academia is a Man's World -- Class, Economics, and Education in Late 20th Century Britain -- Narrative and Identity: It's All Relative.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index.