Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After Fifty by A Ridout

Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After Fifty by A Ridout

Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essays collected in this volume provide fresh analyses along with appreciative memoirs for 21st century readers of this well-known masterpiece.

"Fifty years after the publication of The Golden Notebook, a new generation of critics responds to Doris Lessing's masterpieceThese essays illuminate the novel's sources in Lessing's life and times; show what it has meant to generations of readers; and engage in wide-ranging discussions of the novel's politics, ethics, and aesthetics, and of its complex relationship to modernism and postmodernism. Anyone interested in Doris Lessing's writing will enjoy this collection!" - Toril Moi, Duke University, James B. Duke Professor of Literature, Duke University, USA

"This volume perfectly captures why Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was such a landmark book. The collection contains a wonderful mixture of personal memories and fresh critical approaches to the novel that not only place it in its moment of publication but also make clear how it changed things for fiction to come." - Susan Watkins, Reader in Twentieth-Century Women's Prose Fiction, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Sophia Barnes, University of Sydney, Australia Dame Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge, UK Julie Cairnie, University of Guelph, Canada Cornelius Collins, Fordham University, USA Florence Howe, CUNY Graduate Center, USA Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University, USA Mark Pedretti, Case Western Reserve University, USA Jonah Raskin, Sonoma State University, USA Alice Ridout, Algoma University, Canada Roberta Rubenstein, American University, USA Paul Schlueter, Southern Illinois University, USA Sandra Singer, University of Guelph, Canada

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ISBN 13	9781349504060
ISBN 10	1349504068
Title	Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook After Fifty
Author	A Ridout
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2015-11-08
Number of pages	221
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.