Women Making Modernism (eBook)

Erica Gene Delsandro (Herausgeber)

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2020
246 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-5730-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Challenging the tendency of scholars to view women writers of the modernist era as isolated artists who competed with one another for critical and cultural acceptance, Women Making Modernism reveals the robust networks women created and maintained that served as platforms and support for women’s literary careers. This volume shows how women’s writing communities interconnected to generate a current of energy, innovation, and ambition that was central to the modernist movement.

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Challenging the tendency of scholars to view women writers of the modernist era as isolated artists who competed with one another for critical and cultural acceptance, Women Making Modernism reveals the robust networks women created and maintained that served as platforms and support for women’s literary careers.



The essays in this volume highlight both familiar and lesser-known writers including Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Dorothy Richardson, Emma Goldman, May Sinclair, and Mary Hutchinson. For these writers, relationships and correspondences with other women were key to navigating a literary culture that not only privileged male voices but also reserved most financial and educational opportunities for men. Their examples show how women’s writing communities interconnected to generate a current of energy, innovation, and ambition that was central to the modernist movement. Contributors to this volume argue that the movement’s prominent intellectual networks were dependent on the invisible work of women artists, a fact that the field of modernist studies has too long overlooked.



Amplifying the reality of women’s contributions to modernism, this volume advocates for an “orientation of openness” in reading and teaching literature from the period, helping to ease the tensions between feminist and modernist studies.

Autor

Erica Gene Delsandro is assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Bucknell University.

Inhalt

Content

Introduction

Erica Gene Delsandro and Julie Vandivere

1. Writing Modernist Women: Towards a Poetics of Insubstantiality

Emily Ridge

2. The Haunting of Mary Hutchinson

Jane Garrity

3. Modernism and Middlebrow Through the Eyes of Object Studies

Celia Marshik

4. How Financial Speculation Created a Female Modernist Tradition

Julie Vandivere

5. Bringing Women Together, in Theory

Allison Pease

6. Emma Goldman among the Avant-Garde

Catherine Hollis

7. Fantasies of Belonging, Fears of Precarity

Melissa Bradshaw

8. Virginia Woolf and Mina Loy: Modernist Affiliations

Erica Gene Delsandro

9. Iconic Shade and Other Professional Hazards of Woolf Scholarship

Madelyn Detloff

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.1.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b/w illus
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Feminist criticism • Feminist Studies • Gender • modernism • Modernist Communities • Modernist Literature • Women • women and literature • Women Writers
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-5730-2 / 0813057302
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-5730-9 / 9780813057309