Gendered Modernisms : American Women Poets and Their Readers / Thomas Travisano, Margaret Dickie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickie, Margaret, Editor.

Travisano, Thomas, Editor.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

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

Authors and readers--United States--History--20th century.

Authors and readers.

Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.

Books and reading.

Canon (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H. D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrate how these women expand the social, textual, and political boundaries of modernism. The collection places these poets in the context of their times, examining the conditions that helped shape their vivid and diverse poetic careers and reconsidering some of the assumptions that have led to their exclusion from the main narratives of modernist poetry. Ultimately, the aim is to enlarge the literary history of the movement--for gendered, modernism extends backward to the first years of the century, and forward to the beginnings of postmodernism in the 1960s.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Recovering the Repression in Stein’s Erotic Poetry

2. History as Conjugation: Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation and the Literary History of the Modernist Long Poem

3. H. D., Modernism, and the Transgressive Sexualities of Decadent-Romantic Platonism

4. Pornopoeia, the Modernist Canon, and the Cultural Capital of Sexual Literacy: The Case of H. D.

5. “So As to Be One Having Some Way of Being One Having Some Way of Working”: Marianne Moore and Literary Tradition

6. “The Frigate Pelican” ’s Progress: Marianne Moore’s Multiple Versions and Modernist Practice

7. Jouissance and the Sentimental Daughter: Edna St. Vincent Millay

8. Antimodern, Modern, and Postmodern Millay: Contexts of Revaluation

9. Laura (Riding) Jackson’s “Really New” Poem

10. The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon

11. Muriel Rukeyser and Her Literary Critics

12. “The Buried Life and the Body of Waking”: Muriel Rukeyser and the Politics of Literary History

13. Whose Canon? Gwendolyn Brooks: Founder at the Center of the “Margins”

Contributors

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781512801668

1512801666

OCLC:

979781287