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Rebecca West Heroism, Rebellion, and the Female Epic
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Bernard Schweizer
Book Code: GM2360
ISBN: 0-313-32360-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32360-7
184 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2002
List Price: $59.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions in Women's Studies
Series Number: 199
Reviews:
  • In short, this is an essential volume for anyone who wishes to be up-to-date on West's work. The extensive notes and introduction show that Schweizer is keenly aware of the history of West criticism and his important place within it. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
    —Choice     May 2003
Description: Rebecca West (1892-1983) was a prominent English critic, journalist, and novelist. She contributed to feminist and socialist magazines, had a lengthy relationship with H. G. Wells, and was named Dame of the British Empire in 1959. Her literary reputation declined after 1970 and was revived in the mid-1980s, with the posthumous publication of three novels and a memoir, as wells as the reissue of several earlier works. With the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon catapulted her into the limelight and brought her wide critical attention. This book offers a much-needed assessment of her literary career. Schweizer's volume analyzes West's spiritual and philosophical ideas, asserting that her novels and travel writings betray an epic impulse and therefore reinvent epic heroism in feminist terms. The first part of this study examines her fiction, including, The Judge and the trilogy of novels about the Aubrey family. Philosophical and conceptual elements in her fictional and nonfictional prose are explored, relating her ideas to other thinkers. The volume closes with a look at West's reworking of epic conventions in her travel writings, including her unfinished Survivors in Mexico.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Rebecca West's Epic Novels
  • Heroism and Religious Revolt in The Judge
  • Female Quests in the Aubrey Trilogy
  • Philosophical Interlude
  • Rebecca West's World of Ideas
  • Rebecca West's Epic Travel Writing
  • Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Modern Female Epic
  • "Survivors in Mexico": Genesis of an Epic Fragment
  • Heroism and Religious Revolt in Survivors in Mexico
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002024480
LCC Class: PR6045
Dewey Class: 828
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