Until about 1986, feminists generally considered modernism a reactionary, misogynist, and hegemonic mire not worth investigating. Since then enough studies of modernism have appeared that 17 feminist critics can now review and debate their treatment of the period. They evaluate the progress and goals of the new era of modernist scholarship.
As the authors in this volume suggest, instead of condemning writers for not practicing or portraying an acceptable politics of gender, we ought instead to show how their assumptions about the nature of the sexes inform their texts, both in their creation and in their reception. This also allows examination of the complex and changing relationship between human subjectivity and aesthetics.
This volume is a highly reflective dialogue, introspective and evaluative, at a moment of crisis within modernist studies and feminist studies. The analysis of critical work on early-twentieth-century literature not only helps reread and redefine a definition of modernism; it also intends to redirect and reintegrate feminist theory.
Edited by:
Lisa Rado
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780415752367
ISBN 10: 0415752361
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
Pages: 4
Publication Date: 21 March 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
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A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Part 1: Introduction 1. Lost and Found: Remembering Modernism, Rethinking Feminism Part 2: Rereading Modernism 2. A Manifesto for Feminine Modernism: Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage 3. Rebecca West’s Criticism: Alliance, Tradition and Modernism 4. Woolf, Cézanne, and the Nachträglichkeit of Feminist Modernism 5. Expatriate Sapphic Modernism: Entering Literary History 6. Afro-American Women Writers: The New Negro Movement 1924-1933 7. To Hell With It: Modernism in a Feminist Frame 8. Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook: A Paradox of Postmodern Play Part 3: Rereading Feminist Criticism 9. Modernism and Modernity: Engendering Literary History 10. A Joyce of One’s Own: Following the Lead of Woolf, West and Barnes 11. Repossessing Papa: A Narcissistic Meditation for Literary Throwbacks 12. Subject to Change: The Problematics of Authority in Feminist Modernist Biography 13. Feminist Criticism/Cultural Studies/Modernist Texts: A Manifesto for the ‘90s Part 4: New Directions 14. Invisible Assistants or Lab Partners? Female Modernism and the Culture(s) of Modern Science 15. ""Excellent Not a Hull House"": Gertrude Stein, Jane Addams, and Feminist-Modernist Political Culture 16. The ""Great Company of Real Women"": Modernist Women Writers and Mass Commercial Culture 17. Reading ""as a Modernist""/Denaturalizing Modernist Reading Protocols: Wyndham Lewis’s Tarr"
Lisa Rado (Harvard Westlake Upper School, CA, USA)
