Author: Plain, Gill
Title: Women's Fiction of the Second World War: Gender, Power & Resistance
Description: New York, St. Martin's Press, (1996). orig.boards. 24x16cm, xi, 207 pp. Slight corner bump, light cover scratch to rear cover, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Prelude to War; Safety in Sanctity: Dorothy L. Sayer's Marriage of Convenience; Faith in a 'Watching Brief': Stevie Smith & the Religion of Fascism; 'Breaking the Mould': Virginia Woolf & the Threat of War; Weathering the Storm; Violation of a Fiction: 'Between the Acts' & the Myth of 'Our Island History'; Constructing the Future through the Past: Naomi Mitchison's Brave New World; From Alienation to Absence: Avoiding the War in 'The Heat of the Day'; Conclusion.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, British Novels, English Literature, Women's Fiction, World War Two, Women Novelists, Gender, Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison