Subjects
Winifred Holtby's Social Vision:
'Members One of Another'
Lisa Regan
Gender and Genre
978 1 84893 132 9: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 84893 133 6
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding, published posthumously in 1936. This final work was the culmination of Holtby’s ideas on the importance of community and has become her artistic legacy.
The interwar period in which Holtby wrote saw great changes in ideas of social responsibility, class, gender roles and imperialism. The main aim of this study is to trace Holtby’s social ideology, from her early work in the 1920s until her death, placing it in the context of wider social change. It is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.
Readership
Literature, Feminism, Gender Studies, Sociology and Twentieth-Century Studies
Contents
Introduction
1 ‘An Idea of Service’ in Anderby Wold and The Crowded Street
2 The Land of Green Ginger and the ‘two-dimensional effect’
3 Socialism in Poor Caroline and Mandoa, Mandoa!
4 ‘The Revolt Against Reason’: Social Segregation and Psychology in Women and a Changing Civilisation and Take Back Your Freedom
5 ‘Members one of another’: Community and the Individual in South Riding
Conclusion: ‘Betwixt and Between’