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Author Symposium
Author_Wendy Pollard
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Carmen Callil
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Curtis Brown
Demarcation Line
Dusty Answer
Echoing Grove
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Family Friend
Gwendolen Raverat
Hay Ward
Janet Watts
Lehmann's Books
Lehmann's Work
Lehmann's Writing
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Madame Arcati
Michigan State University
Mrs Miniver
Sea Grape Tree
Uninvited Guests
Victoria Sackville West
Virago Reprint
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367893040
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study of contemporary and later critical responses to the work of the novelist Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) offers an original approach to twentieth-century literary history by foregrounding the cultural and commercial fields in which Lehmann's writing was situated. The author examines the effect recent developments in literary theory and movements from modernism to feminism have had on Lehmann's literary reception. She also considers the interpolation of a damning third category betweente and popular culture, namely middlebrow; a widening gender divide in readership; controversies within book reviewing; changes in the publishing world; and the introduction of popularist means of book marketing. While considering the general privileging of male authors from the 1920s to the 1950s, Lehmann's most prolific period, the author argues that her novels have been unfairly subjected to specific forms of neglect, and their exclusion from many academic comparative studies is due to a diversity of form and content that can also be considered their strength.
Wendy Pollard
