The feminine middlebrow novel, 1920s to 1950s : class, domesticity, and bohemianism / Nicola Humble.
The feminine middlebrow novel, 1920s to 1950s : class, domesticity, and bohemianism / Nicola Humble.
The feminine middlebrow novel, 1920s to 1950s : class, domesticity, and bohemianism / Nicola Humble.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
Call Numbers
N823.912/108
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 272 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. 'Books Do Furnish a Room': Readers and Reading -- 2. 'Not Our Sort': The Re-Formation of Middle-Class Identities -- 3. Imagining the Home -- 4. The Eccentric Family -- 5. A Crisis of Gender?
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2001.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
The work of over thirty novelists is covered, read alongside other discourses as diverse as cookery books, child-care manuals, and the reports of Mass Observation. Investigating the nature of the feminine middlebrow and its readers, the author considers its variously radical and conservative remakings of ideas of class, the home, the family and gen...
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The feminine middlebrow novel, 1920s to 1950s : class, domesticity, and bohemianism / Nicola Humble.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.257-265) and index.
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Other version (online)
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N823.912/108
Record Identifier
74Vv0R8owdqO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv0R8owdqO
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ISBN
0199269335 (pbk.)
9780198186762 (acid-free paper)
0198186762 (acid-free paper)
9780199269334 (pbk.)
DDC
823.912099287
MMS ID
991015773959702626
