With this book, wrote Chiara Briganti
and Kathy Mezei
, Young began to perfect the domestic novel.
Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate, 2006.
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Literary responses
E. H. Young
V. S. Pritchett
reviewed this novel favourably for the New Statesman and Nation.
Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate, 2006.
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Much later Mezei
and Briganti
reported that it delighted even the most committed postmodernists in a recent graduate class.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
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Reception
E. H. Young
The New York Times Book Review found this book charmingly realistic;
qtd. in
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
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V. S. Pritchett
thought it typical of fiction by women in its fine discrimination of character. It made some reviewers think of...
Textual Features
Luce Irigaray
In Je, Tu, Nous, LI
has written the clearest available introduction
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
to themes and arguments characteristic of her work on women, gender and patriarchal mythologies. According to critics Sharla Hutchison
, Chiara Briganti
...
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Texts
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate, 2006.
Hutchison, Sharla et al. “Luce Irigaray”. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism, 2nd ed.