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040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a828.91209 _bHUK _223
100	1		_aHuk, Romana _eauthor
245	1	0	_aStevie Smith : _bbetween the lines / _cRomana Huk
264		1	_aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2005
300			_a331 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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
650		0	_aSmith, Stevie, 1902-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aWomen and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.
650		0	_aCriticism and interpretation
650		0	_aHistory
650		0	_aWomen and literature
650		0	_aSmith, florence margaret, 1902-1971
650		0	_aCritique et interprétation
650		0	_aFemmes et littérature
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