Modernist women writers and American social engagement / edited by Jody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, and Julia Lisella.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cardinal, Jody, editor.

Egan-Ryan, Deirdre E., editor.

Lisella, Julia, editor.

Series:

Innovation and activism in American women's writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, American--Political activity.

Women authors, American.

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

American literature.

American literature--Women authors.

Political participation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 315 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

"Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism through an examination of a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : modernist women writers and American social engagement / Jody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, and Julia Lisella

Resisting dismissal : working-class women in the popular fiction of Edna Ferber and Mary Roberts Rinehart / Windy Counsell Petrie

Virginia Lee Burton's "Tust sentimental talk" : modernist children's literature and collective action / Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan

"In harmony with the desert" : syncretic modernism in Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No turning back / Amanda J. Zink

Gertrude Stein and college education for women : early activism and its modernist legacy / Jody Cardinal

Unclassified : the political feminism of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Sonnets from an ungrafted tree" / Linda Martin

Anne Spencer's epistolary activism / Lesley Wheeler

Lola ridge, modernism, and the poetics of radical sentimentalism / Nathaniel Cadle

Radical re-invention of the lyric in Genevieve Taggard's Poems of Hawai'i / Julia Lisella

Politics, rhetoric, and death in Katherine Anne Porter / William Solomon

"Is it time?" : modernist experimentation and Harlem Renaissance prophecy in Marita Bonner's The purple flower / Laura Dawkins

Economics, nation, and family in Mina Loy's Anglo-mongrels and the rose / Linda A. Kinnahan

Anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, anti-war : the political alter-egos of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore in 1930s Britain / Celena Kusch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Modernist women writers and American social engagement

ISBN:

9781498582902

1498582907

OCLC:

1081398560

Publisher Number:

99983584121