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The Making of Barbara Pym: Oxford, the War Years, and Post-war Austerity

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The Making of Barbara Pym offers new insights into Pym’s formative years as a writer, during which she honed a complex view of the necessity of change on individual and cultural levels. Supported by newly published archival material, this comprehensive study of Pym’s early work explores her personal and fictional pre-war and wartime writing, including unpublished and posthumously published works, before looking closely at Some Tame Gazelle and Excellent Women, published during Britain’s post-war austerity period. Of central importance is a new recognition of Pym’s use of social roles, particularly those of women, as proper avenues for change. The book traces how Pym came to devise characters whose individual development can be seen as analogous to or representative of larger cultural movements. Pym uses the spinster figure to embody the forward-looking cultural perspectives that she endorsed and then, finally, in Jane and Prudence, to figure the end of Britain’s austerity period.

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Format: paperback
ASIN: B0BJ89LHWL
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 November 2022
Listed Since: 17 October 2022

The Making of Barbara Pym: Oxford, the War Years, and Post-war Austerity

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