01938nam a2200325 i 4500 322403 InACL 20260927133926.0 260927s2005 xx 0 eng d 9780333549971 033354997X InACL eng rda InACL 828.91209 HUK 23 Huk, Romana author Stevie Smith : between the lines / Romana Huk Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 331 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Stevie Smith (1902-1971) was for many years regarded as England's endearing 'eccentric', an identification which effectively de-historicised her very funny, if often chilling, poems and prose. The subject of two entertaining biographies, the extraordinary woman rather than the extraordinary work was, for far too many years, the focus of readers and critics alike. But the 1990s saw a new burst of strikingly different assessments of Smith's contribution to literary modernism, much of it put forward by women's studies scholars engaged in rewriting the history of centres versus 'ex-centric' peripheries in the modern critical tradition." "Though invaluable, these rewritings have, ironically, by virtue of their exclusive interest in women's issues and gendered reading, continued to isolate Smith from the broader context that she so desperately knew herself to be shaped by, even as she plunged Smith, Stevie, 1902-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century. Criticism and interpretation History Women and literature Smith, florence margaret, 1902-1971 Critique et interprétation Femmes et littérature 633045 633045 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-09-27 0 828.91209 HUK 322403 2026-09-27 13:39:26 2026-09-27 BK