British Experimental Women’s Fiction, 1945-1975

Chapter 1 Introduction: (Re)Mapping the Post-War British Literary Landscape

Chapter 2 Feeling “The High-Voltage Current of the General Pass”: Experiments in Subjectivity in British Women’s Fiction in the Wake of World War II

Chapter 3 A Precarious Vision: Hallucination and the Short Story in Post-War Britain

Chapter 4 Whose Sister? “Convenient Pigeonholes”, Peter Owen and the Publishing of Anna Kavan

Chapter 5 Contacts, Landings: The Holocaust and Late Modernist Form in Eva Figes and Eva Tucker

Chapter 6 No Country for Old Maids? Housing Ivy Compton-Burnett’s Mid-Century Fiction

Chapter 7 Anna Kavan’s Ice: Postwar Experimentalism and the Fiction of the Anthropocene

Chapter 9 “Designing Its Own Shadow”: Ann Quin’s Reiterative Experimental Processes

Chapter 10 “Simply as an Instrument”: The Female Characters of Christine Brooke-Rose

Chapter 11 Brigid Brophy’s In Transit, or the Post-war Novel’s Transition from an “Exhausted” to a “Replenished” Form

Chapter 12 Experimenting in the Ditch: Buchi Emecheta’s Early Novels of Transformation

Chapter 13 Afterword: I’m a Woman Experimental Writer … Get Me Out of Here!