Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Introduction
- 1 Early Lessing, Commitment, the World
- 2 ‘I'm an adolescent. And that's how I'm going to stay’: Lessing and Youth Culture 1956–1962
- 3 Sequence, Series and Character in Children of Violence
- 4 The Politics of Form: The Golden Notebook and Women's Radical Literary Tradition
- 5 Readers of Fiction and Readers in Fiction: Readership and The Golden Notebook
- 6 From The Grass is Singing to The Golden Notebook: Film, Literature and Psychoanalysis
- 7 ‘funny thing laughter, what's it for?’: Humour and Form in Lessing's Fiction,A
- 8 Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis
- 9 Lessing and Time Travel
- 10 Lessing's Interruptions
- 11 Lessing's Witness Literature
- 12 A Catastrophic Universe: Lessing, Posthumanism and Deep History
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Select Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2017
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Introduction
- 1 Early Lessing, Commitment, the World
- 2 ‘I'm an adolescent. And that's how I'm going to stay’: Lessing and Youth Culture 1956–1962
- 3 Sequence, Series and Character in Children of Violence
- 4 The Politics of Form: The Golden Notebook and Women's Radical Literary Tradition
- 5 Readers of Fiction and Readers in Fiction: Readership and The Golden Notebook
- 6 From The Grass is Singing to The Golden Notebook: Film, Literature and Psychoanalysis
- 7 ‘funny thing laughter, what's it for?’: Humour and Form in Lessing's Fiction,A
- 8 Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis
- 9 Lessing and Time Travel
- 10 Lessing's Interruptions
- 11 Lessing's Witness Literature
- 12 A Catastrophic Universe: Lessing, Posthumanism and Deep History
- Select Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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- Doris Lessing and the Forming of History , pp. 181 - 201Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2016