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Women's experience of modernity, 1875-1945 /
A contribution to feminist scholarship on the gender of modernism, challenging the assumption that modernism rose naturally or inevitably to the forefront of the cultural landscape at the turn of the 20th century. The book examines the writings of Jane Addams, Amy Levy, Rebecca West, and others.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Ann L. Ardis
- PART I. Negotiating the literary marketplace
- Writing a public self: Alice Meynell's "Unstable equilibrium" / Talia Schaffer
- Towards a new "colored" consciousness: biracial identity in Pauline Hopkin's fiction / Leslie W. Lewis
- Authority of experience: Jane Addams and Hull-house / Francesca Sawaya
- "This other Eden": homoeroticism and the Great War in the early poetry of H.D. and Radclyffe Hall / Claire Buck
- Heir unapparent: Opal Whitely and the female as child in America / Deborah Garfield
- PART II. Outside the metropolis
- In-between modernity: Toru Dutt (1856-1877) from a postcolonial perspective / Alpana Sharma
- New Negro modernity: worldliness and interiority in the novels of Emma Dunham Kelly-Hawkins / Carla L. Peterson
- Olive Schreiner, South Africa, and the costs of modernity / Carolyn Burdett
- "Tropical ovaries": gynecological degeneration and Lady Arabella's "female difficulties" in Bram Stoker's The lair of the white worm / Piya Pal-Lapinski
- Two talks with Khun Fa / Lynn Theismeyer
- PART III. The shifting terrain of public life
- "Stage business" as citizenship: Ida B. Wells at the world's Columbian exposition / James C. Davis
- Phenomena in flux: the aesthetics and politics of traveling in modernity / Ana Parejo Vadillo
- New woman's appetite for "riotous living": Rebecca West, modernist feminism, and the everyday / Barbara Green
- Djuna Barnes makes a specialty of crime: violence and the visual in her early journalism / Katherine Biers
- In pursuit of an erogamic life: Marie Stopes and the culture of Married love / Lucy Burke
- Shift work: observing women observing, 1937-1945 / Julian Yates
- Afterword / Rita Felski.