Innocence, Naivety, Directness: Children in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Fiction
This essay argues that Warner’s frequent portrayals of children in her mid-century fiction, particularly her short stories, are closely connected with her sharp critiques of bourgeois conventionality (‘The Cold’, ‘Noah’s Ark’) and of fascism (‘Apprentice’, ‘View Halloo’). Thanks to their unembarrass...
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| Language: | English |
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UCL Press
2019-03-01
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| Series: | The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society |
| Online Access: | https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.stw.2019.12 |