British Women Writers of World War II

PHYLLIS LASSNER teaches Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, and Writing at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, essays on British women writers of the interwar and World War II periods, and the introduction to a rediscovered feminist classic, the 1910 novel by Karin Michaelis, The Dangerous Age.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 'Differences that Divide and Bind' From Fascism in Britain to World War: Dystopic Warnings 'The Future is our Business': Dystopic Visions of Hitler's Victory No Place Like Home: The British Home Front 'Perpetual Civil War': Domestic Romances of Britain's Fate Keeping Faith with the Conquered: Fictions of the European Home Front Defending Europe's Others Notes Bibliography Index

'Lassner is a masterful reader of these fictions; her readings are supported by intertextual analysis, and biographical details are used to illuminate, but not stand in for, interpretation.' - Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin, Madison