Feminine and Fiction Kaur Simran Scholar, Department of English, Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, Email id: simrankaurwadhawan778@gmail.com Abstract What is a “feminine” novel? By “feminine, ” I mean not the more trivial construction of what is considered “feminine” in such areas of popular culture as make-up or perfumery, but those usually understand qualities which convention now adduces to women: receptivity, diffuseness of emotionally and intuitive thinking. Yet these conventions are by no means universal: Anthony Burgess finds “clarity and common sense as essentially feminine properties in the novel” and cites Storm Jameson, Lettice Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Nancy Mitford as illustrations of this definition of the “feminine.” These women writers, he avers, “have made our sweating male experimentalists look gauche and uncomfortable.” Burgess, as well as being selective in his reading of women's fiction, confuses “feminine” with qualities that he projects into women. Top Keywords Feminine, Twentieth-century, Fiction, Unconscious, Sexuality, Language, Gender, Achievements. Top |