Women Making Modernism / edited by Erica Gene Delsandro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delsandro, Erica Gene, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, [2020]

Summary:

Challenging the tendency of scholars to view women writers of the modernist era as isolated artists who competed with one another for critical and cultural acceptance, Women Making Modernism reveals the robust networks women created and maintained that served as platforms and support for women's literary careers. The essays in this volume highlight both familiar and lesser-known writers including Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Dorothy Richardson, Emma Goldman, May Sinclair, and Mary Hutchinson. Their examples show how women's writing communities interconnected to generate a current of energy, innovation, and ambition that was central to the modernist movement. Amplifying the reality of women's contributions to modernism, this volume advocates for an "orientation of openness" in reading and teaching literature from the period, helping to ease the tensions between feminist and modernist studies.

Contents:

Writing modernist women: towards a poetics of insubstantiality / Emily Ridge

Modernism and the middlebrow through the eyes of object studies / Celia Marshik

The haunting of Mary Hutchinson / Jane Garrity

Peggy Guggenheim's and Bryher's investment: how financial speculation created a female modernist tradition / Julie Vandivere

Bringing women together, in theory / Allison Pease

Emma Goldman among the avant-garde / Catherine W. Hollis

Fantasies of belonging, fears of precarity / Melissa Bradshaw

Virginia Woolf and Mina Loy: modernist affiliations / Erica Gene Delsandro

Iconic shade and other professional hazards of Woolf scholarship / Madelyn Detloff.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-5838-4

0-8130-5730-2

OCLC:

1097365809