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The testing of Barbara Pym = London, the wilderness years, and the rewards of age /

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Title/Author:	The testing of Barbara Pym/ by Emily Stockard.
Reminder of title:	London, the wilderness years, and the rewards of age /
Author:	Stockard, Emily.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2023.,
Description:	xvi, 237 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Twentieth-Century Literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39667-0
ISBN:	9783031396670

The testing of Barbara Pym = London, the wilderness years, and the rewards of age /
Stockard, Emily.

The testing of Barbara PymLondon, the wilderness years, and the rewards of age /[electronic resource] :by Emily Stockard. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023. - xvi, 237 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Less Than Angels: Discontents, Detachment, and Discontinuities -- Chapter 3: A Glass of Blessings: Crossing the Boundaries Between Elegance and Excellence -- Chapter 4: No Fond Return of Love: Unlikely Continuities -- Chapter 5: Struggle for Continuity During the "Wilderness Years" (1963-1977) -- Chapter 6: An Unsuitable Attachment: A Redefinition -- Chapter 7: The Sweet Dove Died: Discontinued Friendships and the Arrested Life -- Chapter 8: Life Goes On: Continued Sustenance -- Chapter 9: Strands of Change and Quartet in Autumn: The Limits of Continuity -- Chapter 10: Continuity Regained: Village Life and "Rediscovery" -- Chapter 11: A Few Green Leaves: Looking to the Future -- Chapter 12: Epilogue: Last Respects.

The Testing of Barbara Pym, a companion volume to The Making of Barbara Pym (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), completes a comprehensive analysis of Pym's novels and her life, focusing on her complex view of the necessity of change at both the individual and cultural levels. Newly published archival material supports this treatment of Pym's vision of a changing world - a vision premised upon the principle of continuity, a linking together of past, present, and future. In her novels published from 1955-1980, beginning with Britain's emergence from post-war austerity, Pym portrays, in an optimistic fashion, several changing aspects of British culture: expansion of the suburbs, acceptance of homosexual men, erosion of the class system, inclusivity in the Anglican Church. But with these changes, new strains emerge as well; the principle of continuity undergoes radical testing and is then emphatically reasserted. Likewise, despite upheavals to established patterns in her life, chiefly the inability to publish her work, Pym persisted in cultivating such elements of continuity as she could, an effort rewarded, while she was in rural retirement, by a return to the publishing world. Thus, in both Pym's novels and her life, continuity survives the duress of testing circumstances. Emily Stockard is Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University, USA, and author of The Making of Barbara Pym: Oxford, the War Years, and Post-war Austerity (2021)

ISBN: 9783031396670

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-39667-0doiSubjects--Personal Names:

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Pym, Barbara
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1105346
Twentieth-Century Literature.

LC Class. No.: PR6066.Y58 / S76 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 823.914

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