Reappraising Jane Duncan: Sexuality, Race and Colonialism in the My Friends NovelsMcFarland, 2017 M03 14 - 196 páginas Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women's education and work in the 20th century, a woman's view of the rising societal tensions of the 1920s and 1930s, and an outsider's perspective on the racial divide in the soon-to-be-independent West Indies. This book explores Duncan's body of work, out of print for decades, though sought by loyal fans. Her characters run the gamut--drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, members of the London fast set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling detail. Her novels--two of them recently reprinted for a new generation--reveal a charming and perceptive recorder of the changes Great Britain underwent in the past century. |
Contenido
Preface | 1 |
A Note on Language | 3 |
Jane Duncan The Writer and Her Work | 5 |
Guides to the Novels | 117 |
Major Characters | 171 |
Scots Vocabulary | 176 |
Works Cited | 181 |
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Reappraising Jane Duncan: Sexuality, Race and Colonialism in the My Friends ... Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe Vista previa limitada - 2017 |