Step-daughters of England : British women modernists and the national imaginary
By reading the work of the British modernists - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - through the lens of material culture, this text argues that women's imaginative work is inseparable from their ambivalent, complicated relation to Britain's imperial history
Print Book, English, 2003
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, UK, New York, 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 349 pages ; 24 cm
9780719061639, 9780719061646, 0719061636, 0719061644
51900526
Introduction: conquering new worlds
women, modernism, and nationalism
1. Domesticating the empire: British womanhood and national culture
2. "Neither English nor civilized": Dorothy Richardson's spectatrix and the feminine crusade for global intervention
3. Encoding bi-location: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the primitive erotics of sapphic dissimulation
4. Mary Butts's England: racial memory and the daughter's mystical assertion of nationhood
5. Mapping "the body of our mother": national desire, imperial nostalgia, and language in Virginia Woolf
Epilogue: rebuilding the house of England