Cold Comfort Farm / by Gibbons, Stella, 1902-1989

Sense and sensibility. by Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

Unexpected Pleasures Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th-century British Fiction by Tucker, Lauryl

Table of Contents: “…The Epistemology of the Woodshed: Stella Gibbons's Gothic Progress -- Part Two: Passing Parodies -- IIb Gothic Encounters, Redux -- 4. …”
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British boarding houses in interwar women's literature : alternative domestic spaces / by Mullholland, Terri

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reading the single room in the British boarding house -- "No place like home": boarding and lodging in Dorothy Richardson's pilgrimage -- "Less than ten shillings between her and nothing": social class and the economics of the boarding house in Storm Jameson, Lettice Cooper, and Stella Gibbons -- "Can we go back to your room?" : Relationships, sexual encounters and romantic friendships in Rosamond Lehmann, Jean Rhys and Winifred Holtby -- Race and nationality": travelling to the British boarding house -- Conclusion: Rooms for single women: Virginia Woolf's The years.…”

Unexpected pleasures : parody, queerness & genre in 20th-century British fiction / by Tucker, Lauryl

Table of Contents: “…"By himself, reading, a naked man": Orlando and the dutiful biographer -- Flush: Good dog, bad reading -- The epistemology of the woodshed: Stella Gibbons's gothic progress -- "Whatever do you expect?" …”
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Women, celebrity, and literary culture between the wars / by Hammill, Faye

Table of Contents: “…Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and early Hollywood -- "The best product of this century" : Margaret Kennedy's The constant nymph -- "Literature or just sheer flapdoodle?": Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm -- "Wildest hopes exceeded" : E.M. …”
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Off to the pictures : cinema-going, women's writing and movie culture in interwar Britain / by Stead, Lisa

Intermodernism : literary culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain /

Table of Contents: “…White and the fictions of medieval Englishness / Janet Montefiore -- 'A strange field': region and class in the novels of Harold Heslop / John Fordham -- Stella Gibbons, ex-centricity and the suburb / Faye Hammill -- Intermodern travel: J.B. …”
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Off to the pictures : cinema-going, women's writing and movie culture in interwar Britain / by Stead, Lisa

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Modernism, satire, and the novel / by Greenberg, Jonathan Daniel, 1968-

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The comic mode in English literature : from the Middle Ages to today / by Roston, Murray

Table of Contents: “…The Twentieth Centurya) George Bernard Shaw; b) Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm; c) Beckett, Waiting for Godot; d) Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim; e) Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man; f) Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary; Notes; Works Cited -- on the Comic ; Works Cited -- General; Index.…”
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Novel houses : twenty famous fictional dwellings / by Hardyment, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby (1925) -- The queerest sense of echo: Virginia Woolfe's Orlando (1928) & Vita Sackville West's The Edwardians (1930) -- Sheer flapdoodle: Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm (1932) -- House of secrets: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938) -- A household of the faith: Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited (1945) -- The sorcerer's tower: Dodie Smith's I capture the castle (1948) -- Vast shambles: Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast (1947-59) -- Deep roots: J. …”

The novel : a biography / by Schmidt, Michael, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Bates ; Ethel Mannin ; Olivia Manning ; Stella Gibbons ; V.S. Pritchet ;, Robert Graves ; Doris Lessing ; Angela Carter ; Elaine Feinstein ; Colm Tóibín ; Alan Hollinghurst -- 39. …”
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