Engendering Fictions The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century

Lyn Pykettis Professor of English, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. 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. 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. "Exceptionally lucid."--Review of English StudiesPykett, Lyn is the author of 'Engendering Fictions The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century', published 1995 under ISBN 9780340562772 and ISBN 0340562773.