Titlebook: Clever Girls and the Literature of Women‘s Upward Mobility; Mary Eagleton Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 G

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Book 2018e book ends with a consideration of feminism’s place as a phantom presence in this history of clever girls. This study will appeal to readers of contemporary women’s writing and to those interested in what has been one of the dominant social narratives of the post-war period from upward to declining mobility. .

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The Respiratory Chain of Bacteria,o haunt. Authors are conscious of the questions posed by feminism and the retrospective mode in Linda Grant’s novels and Margaret Drabble’s . (2006) revives feminism without idealising it. In various ways, the literature both confirms and questions Lauren Berlant’s thesis on ‘alternative modes of life’ and the viability of ‘the good life’.

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Relative Values: Career, Marriage, Maternity,erviews and essays in which Byatt and Drabble reflect on these issues with respect to their own lives. The authors employ diverse figures, narrative strategies and forms in their search for resolution. The general conclusion is that, in the trilogy of career, marriage and maternity, two might be managed but three is unlikely.

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New Forms, New Selves, by the vocabulary of ‘chance’ and ‘choice’ and also the language of affect. Pierre Bourdieu’s comments on the ‘.’ suggest that the gap between the old self and the new self is, sometimes, too wide to negotiate. The new self is envisaged, seems within reach but, then, might slip from one’s grasp.

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Crop Respiration and Growth Efficiency,cious, public vocabulary of mobility—‘meritocracy’, ‘opportunity’, ‘aspiration’, ‘choice’—there is a vocabulary that exposes the women’s uncertainty, even desperation—‘luck’, ‘chance’, ‘fate’, ‘accident’. The chapter ends with an outline of the scope of the book and the forthcoming argument.

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