Title: Modernist fiction, cosmopolitanism and the politics of community /
Authors: Berman, Jessica Schiff, 1961-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: James, Henry, Political and social views.; Proust, Marcel, Political and social views.; Woolf, Virginia, Political and social views.; Stein, Gertrude, Political and social views.; American fiction History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) United States; Politics and literature History; Literature and society History; Internationalism in literature.; Community life in literature.; Modernism (Literature); Cosmopolitanism.
Abstract: "In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although these modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality, shared voice, and exchange of experience, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of James, Proust, Woolf, and Stein not only inscribe early-twentieth century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community.