Haenlein, L.;
(2018)
History and Fantasy in The True Heart.
The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society
, 18
(1)
pp. 86-98.
10.14324/111.444.stw.2018.08.
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Abstract
The essay argues that Warner’s 1929 novel The True Heart explores the possibility of feminist fantasy within the context of historical realism. It considers the pressures exerted on the protagonist Sukey Bond by the constraints implicit within historical, classical, and religious contexts, and looks in particular at the gender implications of the novel’s debt to Apuleius’s narrative of Cupid and Psyche. The essay compares the ideas of emancipation in The True Heart with those in its predecessor Lolly Willowes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | History and Fantasy in The True Heart |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.stw.2018.08 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.stw.2018.08 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2018, Lucy Haenlein. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited |
| Keywords: | Warner, The True Heart, feminism, emancipation, fantasy, Apuleius |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10059439 |
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