Making love modern : the intimate public worlds of New York's literary women / Nina Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Nina, 1958- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

American literature.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.

Authors, American.

Love poetry, American--Women authors--History and criticism.

Love poetry, American.

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

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature--New York (State)--New York.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--New York (State)--New York.

Women and literature.

Modernism (Literature)--New York (State)--New York.

Modernism (Literature).

Feminist poetry, American--History and criticism.

Feminist poetry, American.

Women authors, American--Biography.

Women authors, American.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p. ) 10 halftones

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a variety of literary subcultures. Certain women found powerful voices through which to speak and write. This text uncovers the historical sensitivity and interest of these women's love poetry.

In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways hardly imaginable in previous decades. Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round Table and the literati of the Harlem Renaissance, certain women found fresh, powerful voices through which to speak and write. Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker are now best remembered for their colourful lives; Genevieve Taggard, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Helene Johnson are hardly remembered at all. Yet each made a serious literary contribution to the meaning of modern femininity, relationship, and selfhood. Making Love Modern uncovers the deep historical sensitivity and interest of these women's love poetry. Placing their work in the context of subcultures nested within national culture, Nina Miller explores the tensions that make this literature so rewarding for contemporary readers. A poetry of intimate expression, it also functioned powerfully as public assertion. The writers themselves were high-profile embodiments of femininity, the local representatives of New Womanhood within their male-centred subcultural worlds. Making Love Modern captures the literary lives of these women as well as the complex subcultures they inhabited---Harlem, the Village, and glamorous Midtown. In the end, the book is a much a study of modernist New York as of women's love poetry during modernism.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-284) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772510-4

0-585-32844-7

0-19-535385-4

1-60256-217-2

1-280-47010-0

OCLC:

475956080