Advanced search
Publication Cover
Home Cultures
The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space
Volume 6, 2009 - Issue 2
Submit an article Journal homepage
160
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Domestic Disappointments: Feminine Middlebrow Fiction of the Interwar Years

Hilary Hinds HILARY HINDS IS SENIOR LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING AT LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, UK. SHE IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE PLACE OF DISAPPOINTMENT AS A DYNAMIC AND AS A TERMINAL POINT IN FEMININE MIDDLEBROW FICTION OF THE MIDTWENTIETH CENTURY. SHE ALSO CONTINUES TO RESEARCH AND PUBLISH IN THE FIELD OF EARLY MODERN SECTARIAN WRITING.
Pages 199-211 | Published online: 27 Apr 2015

REFERENCES

  • Bachelard, Gaston. 1994. The Poetics of Space. Trans. Maria Jolas. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
  • Briganti, Chiara and Mezei, Kathy. 2004. “House Haunting: The Domestic Novel of the Inter-War Years.” Home Cultures 1(2): 147–68.
  • Briganti, Chiara and Mezei, Kathy. 2006. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel and E. H. Young. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Cooper, Lettice. 1987[1936]. The New House. London: Virago.
  • Craib, Ian. 1994. The Importance of Disappointment. London: Routledge.
  • Delafield, E. M. 1988[1927]. The Way Things Are. London: Virago.
  • Forster, E. M. 1975[1910]. Howards End. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
  • Giles, Judy. 1995. Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900–50. New York: St Martin's Press.
  • Giles, Judy. 2004. The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity. Oxford: Berg.
  • Hinds, Hilary. 2009. “Ordinary Disappointments: Femininity, Domesticity and Nation in British Middlebrow Fiction, 1920–1944.” Modern Fiction Studies 55 (in press).
  • Humble, Nicola. 2001. The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity and Bohemianism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Light, Alison. 1991. Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars. London: Routledge.
  • Macaulay, Rose. 1998[1926]. Crewe Train. London: Virago.
  • Phillips, Adam. 1994. “On Love.” In On Flirtation. London: Faber and Faber.
  • Quinney, Laura. 1999. The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.
  • Reed, Christopher. 2004. Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture and Domesticity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Renault, Mary. 1984[1944]. The Friendly Young Ladies. London: Virago.
  • Rubin, Joan Shelley. 1992. The Making of Middlebrow Culture. Chapel Hill, NC, and London: University of North Carolina Press.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.