Engendering Fictions The English Novel in the

Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender. Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender. "Exceptionally lucid."--Review of English Studies

Introductory: Writing in history
Rethinking modernism
Gender, degeneration, renovation: Some contexts of the modern (The turn-of the-century gender crisisdegenerationrenovation)
Writing and gender at the turn of the century (Fiction and the feminine Writing masculine The new feminine realism)
Dorothy Richardson: Thinking the feminine
Virginia Woolf: Rethinking realism, remaking fiction
Male novelists and the engendering of modern fiction
D. H. Lawrence: Gender-bending and sex wars
Notes
Appendix
Index
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Engendering Fictions The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century

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