Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary

Eileen Barrett, Jane Garrity

Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature · 2004 · 82 citations · 0 references

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Introduction: Conquering new worlds - women, modernism and nationalism. Domesticating empire - British womanhood and national culture Neither English nor civilised - Dorothy Richardson's spectatrix and feminine crusade encoding bi-location - Sylvia Townsend Warner and primitive erotics of Sapphic dissimulation Mary Butt's England - racial memory and daughter's mystical assertion of nationhood mapping the body of our mother - national desire, imperial nostalgia, and language in Virginia Woolf epilogue - rebuilding house of England.