Forever England: Femininity, Literature, and Conservatism Between the WarsPsychology Press, 1991 - 281 頁 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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the novels of I ComptonBurnett | 20 |
Agatha Christie and conservative modernity | 61 |
Mrs Miniver | 113 |
Daphne du Mauriers romance with the past | 156 |
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