David Margolies

Maroula Joannou

Margot Heinemann, who died in 1992, was a great scholar of the Renaissance period. As a Marxist, she inspired many with her commitment to the idea that cultural activity was central to the continuing struggle against oppression. These writers consider cultural theory in her honour.

Essays in Cultural Resistance in Memory of Margot Heinemann

Heart of the Heartless World

Marcus Wood

Sara Salih

Deirdre Coleman

Diana Paton

Felicity Nussbaum

George Boulukos

Lincoln Shlensky

Gerald M. MacLean

Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection.

Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807

Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition

An exciting new mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book examines Englishness and national identity in women's writing. Taking as a starting point the premise that mobility is a metaphor for the times, this book uses a synthesis of historical retrieval, literary theory and textual analysis to provide culturally situated and historically-specific readings of a wide range of texts addressing issues that relate to the changing experience of women in this time. Themes addressed include the displacements of war, women's radically altered understandings of their own sexuality, the retreat from Empire, the relationship of women to the idea of nation, the migrant experience, the literary representation of Welsh, Scottish and English identity, and the meanings of home. The book includes accessible scholarly commentary on Englishness and gender by women from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa and discusses the work of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Dodie Smith, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Daphne Du Maurier, Jessie Kesson, Lynette Roberts, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-62

Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity

Anthony Browne

This thought-provoking study offers a radically new perspective on the literature of the interwar period. Writing from a feminist-materialist perspective, the author examines novels of sensibility, domestic fictions, lesbian writing, autobiography, speculative fiction and anti-fascist writing by Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamond Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall and many others. Maroula Joannou provides an incisive, scholarly and accessible feminist critique of the masculinist assumptions about literature of the 1920s and 1930s which have passed without adequate critical scrutiny.Selected for the CHOICE list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1995 (Choice current reviews for Academic Libraries)

Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-38

'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows'

David Ellis

Gina Wisker

John Sears

Imelda Whelehan

Clare Hanson

Eluned Summers-Bremner

English Association

Felicity Rosslyn

Paulina Palmer

Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers.

Contemporary British Women Writers

This wide-ranging study provides a historically grounded account of women's fiction in the 1960s and the 1970s, relating changes in the social structure of Britain and the United States to the literary representations of women's experience.

From The Golden Notebook to The Color Purple

Contemporary Women's Writing

Maroula Joannou

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