Free Woman : Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 112391857
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781408878538
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This interdisciplinary study combines biography and memoir with literary criticism, political history, the history of psychiatry and philosophy. It includes original archival research conducted around the world, including the first use of Lessing’s MI5 files and many newly-available letters. It also interrogates the limits of objectivity and the place for empathetic reading within literary criticism, and is a philosophical investigation of the nature of freedom (political, personal, psychological, sexual, spiritual). In placing myself as critic and researcher at the book’s heart, I was able to tackle some controversial questions in Lessing’s life and writing while making my own methodology explicit.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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