Domestic Modernism the Interwar Novel and E.H. Young

Domestic Modernism the Interwar Novel and E. H. Young provides a valuable analytical model for reading a large body of modernist works by women who have suffered not only from a lack of critical attention but from the assumption that experimental modernist techniques are the only expression of the modern. In the process of documenting the publication and reception history of E. H. Young's novels the authors suggest a paradigm for analyzing the situation of women writers during the interwar years. Their discussion of Young in the context of both canonical and noncanonical writers challenges the generic label and literary status of the domestic novel as well as facile assumptions about popular and middlebrow fiction canon formation aesthetic value and modernity. The authors also make a significant contribution to discussions of the everyday and to the burgeoning field of 'homeculture' as they show that the fictional embodiment and inscription of home by writers such as Young Virginia Woolf Elizabeth Bowen Ivy Compton-Burnett Lettice Cooper E. M. Delafield Stella Gibbons Storm Jameson and E. Arnot Robertson epitomize the long-standing symbiosis between architecture and literature or more specifically between the house and the novel.