Expert modernists, matricide, and modern culture : Woolf, Forster, Joyce / Lois Cucullu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cucullu, Lois.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970.

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

English fiction.

Women in literature.

Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970--Characters--Women.

Forster, E. M.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Characters--Women.

Woolf, Virginia.

Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Characters--Women.

Joyce, James.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Great Britain.

Matriarchy in literature.

Mothers in literature.

Families in literature.

Home in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

This book links the leading innovators of modernism to the cult of the modern expert. In historicizing modernism as a distinct mode of knowledge that competes with other forms of expertise from law to psychology, Lois Cucullu shows how three modernist experts--Woolf, Forster, and Joyce--used technical innovations in the novel to replace reigning Victorian beliefs about marriage, procreation and the family. Modernist narratives of consciousness and bodies convert the gendered domestic sphere into an aesthetic one that grants cultural reproduction and a modern cultural class the centrality once accorded biological reproduction and the bourgeois household.

Contents:

1 Modern Hordes: Women, Modernism, and the Cult of Experts 1

2 Retailing the Female Intellectual 31

3 Sacred Cows: Modernism, Woolf, and Her Fictive Seraphs 58

4 Queer Couplings: Forster's Hellenic Pastoralism and Modern Masculinity 91

5 Putting Rouge on the Corpse: Cosmopolitan Joyce and Modern Culture 120.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-218) and index.

ISBN:

1403935319

OCLC:

53992884