Mothering modernity : feminism, modernism, and the maternal muse / Marylu Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Marylu.

Series:

Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2004.

Garland reference library of the humanities. Origins of modernism ; vol. 10.

Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2004. Origins of modernism ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Mothers and daughters in literature.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Great Britain.

History.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Motherhood in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 238 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 1999.

Summary:

This study examines the transformative relationship between Victorian mothers and their modern daughters in the works of six early British modernists (E. M. Forster, Dorothy Richardson, D.H. Lawrence, May Sinclair, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf). The emphasis upon a female hero is a significant and largely unremarked similarity in some of the most significant works of these authors. In these novels, the female hero, in order to attain her full potential as an agent of social and artistic changes, must undergo a maturation process that leads from the father's world of language and public action to a new appreciation of the mother's unrecognized, alternative virtues. Exploring the emergence of the young, modern woman as the hero in the works of these formative authors, Hill traces the gendered development of notions of modernity and the negotiation of new forms of mother-daughter relationship at the birth of modernity and modernist art, providing a more richly nuanced understand of the issue of gender in modernism.

Contents:

1 Introduction: From New Women to Modernists 1

2 "Only Connect": Mothers, Daughters, and Houses in Howards End 27

3 Getting Back to the Garden: Miriam's Journey in Pilgrimage 57

4 Redeeming Modernity, Feminizing History: The Regenerative Daughter in The Rainbow 107

5 Honorable Schoolboys, or the New Woman Revisited: Mary Olivier and The Well of Loneliness 137

6 The Mother Lost and Regained: The Voyage Out and To the Lighthouse 169

7 Morphing Mothers and Moderns: The Synchronicity of Orlando 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0815324316

OCLC:

39786741