From the modernist annex : American women writers in museums and libraries / Karin Roffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roffman, Karin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, American.

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

American literature.

Libraries and women--United States--History.

Libraries and women.

Museums and women--United States--History.

Museums and women.

Libraries in literature.

Museums in literature.

Libraries--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Libraries.

Museums--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Museums.

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Wharton, Edith.

Larsen, Nella.

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.

Moore, Marianne.

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.

Benedict, Ruth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman's close readings of four modernist writers-Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Marianne Moore, and Ruth Benedict-she studied the that modernist women writers were simultaneously critical of and shaped by these institutions. From the Modernist Annex offers new and critically significant w

Contents:

Women and the mutual development of museums and libraries

Museums and memory in Edith Wharton's modern novels

Nella Larsen, librarian at 135th Street

Accidents happen in Marianne Moore's native habitat

Finding freedom from museums and libraries in Ruth Benedict's poetry

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-246) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8396-4

OCLC:

680620792