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Ivy Compton-Burnett

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Kathy Justice Gentile
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. To Know All Is To Forgive All: I. Compton-Burnett’s Ethic of Tolerance

    • Kathy Justice Gentile
    Pages 1-16

  3. Radical Renovations in the House of Fiction

    • Kathy Justice Gentile
    Pages 17-29

  4. Unhistoric Acts: Early Novels

    • Kathy Justice Gentile
    Pages 30-46

  5. Mothers and Martyrs

    • Kathy Justice Gentile
    Pages 47-64

  6. Civilisation and his Discontents

    • Kathy Justice Gentile
    Pages 65-87

  7. Clouds and Clearings: the Other Novels

    • Kathy Justice Gentile
    Pages 88-102

  8. Character Condensed

    • Kathy Justice Gentile
    Pages 103-119

  9. Attention Must Be Paid: I. Compton-Burnett and her Critics

    • Kathy Justice Gentile
    Pages 120-131

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 132-146
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The twenty novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett comprise a tightly constructed, radically renovated house of fiction. This study finds that her work is grounded on a rational feminism that defies the Christianized moral ethic which restricts traditional novels by and about women. Compton-Burnett condenses the abuses of patriarchy, and its attendant hierarchy, into the closed arena of the Victorian/Edwardian family. Through this fictional technique of condensation, her 'insular' English novels paradoxically expose contradictions and illegitimate foundations of masculinized Western civilization.

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