- Hardcover: 312 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (7 Nov 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415016614
- ISBN-13: 978-0415016612
- Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 2.3 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,321,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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." . . scrupulously researched, and fluently and lovingly written. It is original and imaginative, and will come to occupy a seminal place in cultural history."
-Angela McRobbie, "New Statesman and Society
"[T]his beautifully written book brilliantly demonstrates that a "woman-centered" perspective on the world does not guarantee that it will be radical."
-Elizabeth Wilson, "The Guardian
"As light remarks in her introduction, feminist criticism has tended to dismiss the inter-war years as a kind of benighted age when women stoo still or even fell back, socially and politically, a dead period between the first and second waves of feminism. "Forever 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
-Angela McRobbie, "New Statesman and Society
"[T]his beautifully written book brilliantly demonstrates that a "woman-centered" perspective on the world does not guarantee that it will be radical."
-Elizabeth Wilson, "The Guardian
"As light remarks in her introduction, feminist criticism has tended to dismiss the inter-war years as a kind of benighted age when women stoo still or even fell back, socially and politically, a dead period between the first and second waves of feminism. "Forever 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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Shows how ideas of nation identity were bound up with notions of femininity and private life during the period between the wars. Alison Light looks at a range of writers from Ivy Compton-Burnett and Daphne du Maurier to Agatha Christie.
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'I've read your book', Ivy Compton-Burnett remarked to Rosamund Lehmann on first meeting her at a publishing party for The Echoing Grove, 'and I've decided that one of us cannot be a woman.' Read the first page
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'I've read your book', Ivy Compton-Burnett remarked to Rosamund Lehmann on first meeting her at a publishing party for The Echoing Grove, 'and I've decided that one of us cannot be a woman.' Read the first page
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As a student of English Literature, it has been my sad expereince, whilst the reading of primary texts can often be enjoyable, reading secondary "critical" or "theroritcal" texts rarely matches this pleasure. Alison Light's Forever England is an exception to this rule-of-thumb: a study of critically neglected,'middlebrow' writers between the wars (including Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, and Ivy Compton-Burnett), Forever England is an engaging, beautifully crafted, lively study of this rather "frowned upon" (at least by fusty, old, almost fossilised professors) area of literary study. In particular, I very much enjoyed (and agree with) Light's challanging to the society's inccorect homogonisising of Christie's work into a palid, "timeless mulch" representative of the interwar years, when, indeed, her work changes and devlopes enormously from the 1920s-1970s.
Overall, simnply a pleasure to read!
Overall, simnply a pleasure to read!
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