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Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility/ by Mary Eagleton.
Author:	Eagleton, Mary.
Description:	VII, 208 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Modern—20th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71961-0
ISBN:	9783319719610

Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility
Eagleton, Mary.

Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility[electronic resource] /by Mary Eagleton. - 1st ed. 2018. - VII, 208 p.online resource.

1. Introduction: The Language of Upward Mobility -- 2. Escaping Origins -- 3.Relative Values: Career, Marriage, Maternity -- 4. Troublesome Bodies -- 5. New Forms, New Selves -- 6. ‘Top Girls’ and Other Epithets -- 7. ‘The Haves’ and ‘the Have-Nots’ -- 8. Coda: Phantom Feminism.

This book follows the figure of ‘the clever girl’ from the post-war to the present and focuses on the fiction, plays and memoirs of contemporary British women writers. Spurred on by an ethic of meritocracy, the clever girl is now facing austerity and declining social mobility. Though suggesting optimism, a public discourse of ‘opportunity’, ‘aspiration’ and ‘choice’ is often experienced as an anxious and chancy process. In a wide-ranging study, the book explores the struggle to move away from home and traditional notions of femininity; the persistent problems associated with women’s embodiment; the pressures of class and racial divisions; the new subjectivities of the neoliberal era; and the generational conflict underpinning austerity. The book ends with a consideration of feminism’s place as a phantom presence in this history of clever girls. This study will appeal to readers of contemporary women’s writing and to those interested in what has been one of the dominant social narratives of the post-war period from upward to declining mobility. .

ISBN: 9783319719610

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-71961-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1254198
Literature, Modern—20th century.

LC Class. No.: PN695-779

Dewey Class. No.: 809

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