The Second World War in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
Revisiting the Home Front
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria Stewart (0000-0003-2892-2288, University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 416-432 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpv025 |
| OpenAlex | W2545827452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
In three novels centering on British women’s experience of the Second World War – Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch (2006), Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life (2013), and Alison MacLeod’s Unexploded (2013) – the exploration of women’s contribution to the war effort is tempered by an acknowledgment of the temporary and limited nature of the opportunities the war offered. The disruption of narrative linearity and the incorporation, within narratives of the past, of considerations of the future often tinged with anxiety or disappointment, are the principal means by which these authors attempt to show both the gains and the losses that were the lot of British women during the Second World War
Ancient history · Art · Disappointment · First world war · Front (military · Geography · Home front · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact · Gender Studies · History · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |