Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide is a major work of reference analysing the narrative practices and stylistic devices of women novelists all over the English-speaking world.Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Alphabetical Table of Authors.
Part I: New Forms of Realism and the Rise of Early Modernism, 1895-1925:.
1. The Influence of Psychological Writings on Literature.
2. Introduction to Novelists, 1825-1925.
3. Entries. Sarah Orne Jewett. Kate Chopin. Mary Wilkins Freeman. Olive Schreiner. Vernon Lee. Barbara Baynton. George Egerton. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Edith Wharton. May Sinclair. Henry Handel Richardson. Willa Cather. Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Catherine Carswell. Miles Franklin. Radclyffe Hall. Rose Macaulay. Susam Glaspell. Katharine Susannah Prichard. Anna Yezierska. Hilda Doolittle (HD). Katherine Mansfield. Rebecca West.
Part II: High Modernism, Other Experiments and the Continuing Development of the Socio-Moral Novel, 1918-1925:.
4. Modernism and Stream of Consciousness Fiction.
5. Introduction to Novelists.
6. Entries. Mary Ellen Glasgow. Julia M. Peterkin. Jesse Fauset. Pauline Smith. Frances Newman. Virginia Woolf. Ivy Compton-Burnett. Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Katharine Anne Porter. Jean Rhys. Zora Neale Hurston. Djuna Barnes. Dorothy Parker. Sylvia Townsend Warner. Jean Devanny. Marjorie Barnard. Kate O'Brien. Winifred Holtby. Elizabeth Bowen. Zelda Fitzgerald. Eleanor Dark. Rosamund Lehman. Stevie Smith. Christina Stead. Kay Boyle. Anais Nin. Molly Keane (M. J. Farrell).
Part III: Neo-realism, the Post-War Novel, and Early Post-Modernist Innovations, 1944-1975:.
7. The New International Literatures in English.
8. Introduction to Novelists, 1944-1975.
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