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Introduction

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Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality

Abstract

This introduction provides the theoretical framework for the edited collected, The Edinburgh Companion to Interwar Women's Writing in English. It draws on established research, and suggests a new way of looking at interwar women's writing. It also provides an overview of the chapters in the edited collection. Placing hitherto ‘neglected’ women writers alongside their peers, from the highbrow to the lowbrow, and from the modernists, via the Dadaists and Surrealists, to popular fiction writers, from the British seaside, via the streets of New York, to Asia and the Middle East, the essays in this volume explore the locale, the colouring of the ‘happening’. By interrogating the ways in which women writers lived and narrated their domestic, local, national and international geographies, the works discussed help to shape our understanding of a period in which the world reeled from the devastation of the First World War, only to be rocked once again at the end of the next decade. Recent years have also demonstrated that there is an intrinsic human need for an established position in place and space, for both home and movement and, in an increasingly complex, technologically driven world, these universals remain, extending beyond gender, sexuality and class.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
Chapter
 Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 14/06/2026

Publication status

Accepted/In press - 14/06/2026

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9781399561709

ISBN (Electronic)

9781399561716, 9781399561723

Host publication title

The Edinburgh Companion to Place and Space in Interwar Women's Writing in English

Host publication editors

  • Nicola Darwood
  • Nick Turner

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Introduction - Place and Space in Interwar Women's Writing in English
Accepted author manuscript, 359.89 KB
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