Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Timeline ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Early Lessing, Commitment, the World 10
7. 2. ‘I’m an adolescent. And that’s how I’m going to stay’: Lessing and Youth Culture 1956–1962 26
8. 3. Sequence, Series and Character in Children of Violence 39
9. 4. The Politics of Form: The Golden Notebook and Women’s Radical Literary Tradition 56
10. 5. Readers of Fiction and Readers in Fiction: Readership and The Golden Notebook 71
11. 6. From The Grass is Singing to The Golden Notebook: Film, Literature and Psychoanalysis 84
12. 7. ‘A funny thing laughter, what’s it for?’: Humour and Form in Lessing’s Fiction 97
13. 8. Lessing and the Scale of Environmental Crisis 111
14. 9. Lessing and Time Travel 128
15. 10. Lessing’s Interruptions 137
16. 11. Lessing’s Witness Literature 152
17. 12. A Catastrophic Universe: Lessing, Posthumanism and Deep History 164
18. Select Bibliography 181
19. Notes on Contributors 202
20. Index 204