Women's experience of modernity, 1875-1945 / edited by Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, Leslie W., 1960-

Ardis, Ann L., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

History.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

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

Great Britain.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Feminism and literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction / Ann L. Ardis

PART I. Negotiating the literary marketplace

Writing a public self: Alice Meynell's "Unstable equilibrium" / Talia Schaffer

Towards a new "colored" consciousness: biracial identity in Pauline Hopkin's fiction / Leslie W. Lewis

Authority of experience: Jane Addams and hull-house / Francesca Sawaya

"This other Eden": homoeroticism and the Great War in the early poetry of H.D. and Radclyffe Hall / Claire Buck

Heir unapparent: Opal Whitely and the female as child in America / Deborah Garfield

PART II. Outside the metropolis

In-between modernity: Toru Dutt (1856-1877) from a postcolonial perspective / Alpana Sharma

New Negro modernity: Worldliness and interiority in the novels of Emma Dunham Kelly-Hawkins / Carla L. Peterson

Olive Schreiner, South Africa, and the costs of modernity / Carolyn Burdett

"Tropical ovaries": gynecological degeneration and Lady Arabella's "female difficulties" in Bram Stoker's The lair of the white worm / Piya Pal-Lapinski

Two talks with Khun Fa / Lynn Theismeyer

PART III. The shifting terrain of public life

"Stage business" as citizenship: Ida B. Wells at the world's Columbian exposition / James C. Davis

Phenomena in flux: the aesthetics and politics of traveling in modernity / Ana Parejo Vadillo

New woman's appetite for "riotous living": Rebecca West, modernist feminism, and the everyday / Barbara Green

Djuna Bernes makes a specialty of crime: violence and the visual in her early journalism / Katherine Biers

In pursuit of an erogamic life: Marie Stopes and the culture of Married love / Lucy Burke

Shift work: observing women observing, 1937-1945 / Julian Yates

Afterword / Rita Felski

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801869358

OCLC:

48710985