Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
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Abstract
The death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and twenty-first- century world literature. This volume views Lessing’s writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived. Contributors provide new readings of Lessing’s work via contexts ranging from post-war youth politics and radical women’s writing to European cinema, analyse her experiments with genres from realism to autobiography and science-fiction, and draw on previously unstudied archive material. The volume also explores how Lessing’s writing can provide insight into some of the issues now shaping twenty-first century scholarship – including trauma, ecocriticism, the post-human, and world literature – as they emerge as defining challenges to our own present moment in history.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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Early Lessing, Commitment, the World
Adam Guy
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‘I’m an adolescent. And that’s how I’m going to stay’: Lessing and Youth Culture 1956–1962
Nick Bentley
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Sequence, Series and Character in Children of Violence
Kevin Brazil
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The Politics of Form: The Golden Notebook and Women’s Radical Literary Tradition
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
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Readers of Fiction and Readers in Fiction: Readership and The Golden Notebook
Sophia Barnes
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From The Grass is Singing to The Golden Notebook: Film, Literature and Psychoanalysis
Laura Marcus
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‘A funny thing laughter, what’s it for?’: Humour and Form in Lessing’s Fiction
Cornelius Collins
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Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis
David Sergeant
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Lessing and Time Travel
David Punter
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Lessing’s Interruptions
Tom Sperlinger
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Lessing’s Witness Literature
Elizabeth Maslen
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A Catastrophic Universe: Lessing, Posthumanism and Deep History
Clare Hanson
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End Matter
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