Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender. 'Engendering Fictions' challenges the claims that modernism represents a complete break with the past. The history of modernism has been a story of the removal of the 'great works' of modernist writing from the immediate material and historical circumstances of their origin, and their insertion into the timeless ideal order of the 'modern tradition'. Focusing on a wide range of authors, but particularly Woolf and Lawrence, Lyn Pykett takes issue with this representation of modernism and shows how traditional views offer an impoverished response to the writing of the early twentieth century.

Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender.

About the Author
LYN PYKETT is Professor of English and currently Head of the Department of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.

Reviews
'Exceptionally lucid.' Review of English Studies



Book Information
ISBN 9780340562772
Author Professor Lyn Pykett
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Hodder Arnold
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 290g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 156mm * 16mm