Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-185) and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Darkness in the Mind -- The World Gone Mad in Wartime -- Gothic and Fabulist Tales -- Grieving and Madness -- Part II: Passion -- Romance -- Betrayal -- Part III: Wit And Reason -- Academic and Detective Novels -- 'The Higher Common Sense' -- Notes -- Index.
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"Women Writing Modern Fiction: A Passion for Ideas draws connections between the work of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Olivia Manning, Barbara Pym and A.S. Byatt, who dramatize darkness in wartime, gothic terror, madness, and romantic betrayal, yet celebrate the triumph of rationality and the 'higher common sense'. Bypassing the innovations of the modernists, they rewrite the Victorian novel in stylish modern dress. With irony, detachment, wit, and high intelligence they bring us acrobatic tales of the mind."--Jacket.
English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.