culture, unless we recognize the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars.
From the traumatic aftermath of the First World War, Forever England traces the making of a conservative national temperament which could be defensive
and protective, yet modernizing in outlook. In a series of literary analyses, Light defines this new version of ``Englishness''; in particular, she looks at new kinds of readership and fiction, at the historical and emotional significance of the ``whodunit,'' the burgeoning of historical
romance, and the creation of a middlebrow culture.
As a feminist inquiry, Forever England argues for a social and political history that connects the interior structures of private life with their more public and national forms. It also makes the controversial
proposal that feminism should come to terms with conservative, as well as radical, desires and their place in women's lives.
Scholarly and passionate, Forever England will appeal to those interested in the boundaries between literature and history and their
different forms of story-telling, as well as the changing shapes of national and sexual identities.
England gives us reasons to reevaluate the lives and the acheivements of women during this era and thereby opens up a fascinating and rewarding new area for feminist researchm in the United States as well as in Great Britain (Women's Review of Books)
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culture, unless we recognize the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars.
From the traumatic aftermath of ...