The Cambridge companion to modernist women writers
By: edited by Maren Tova Linett
Series: Cambridge companions to topics; Cambridge companions to topics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521515054; 9780521735704
Subjects: Women authors; Modernism (Literature); Literature; Women and literature; History and criticism; Modern Literature
Description: "Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's writing during the years 1890-1945. The essays treat the work of Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. D. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines, activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernist women's literature : an introduction / Maren Tova Linett; title: 1. Transforming the novel / Bonnie Kime Scott; title: 2. Modernist women poets and the problem of form / Miranda Hickman; title: 3. Women's modernism and performance / Penny Farfan; title: 4. Magazines, presses, and salons in women's modernism / Jayne Marek; title: 5. Gender in women's modernism / Patricia Juliana Smith; title: 6. Black women's modernist literature / Thadious M. Davis; title: 7. Race and ethnicity in white women's modernist literature / Jean Radford; title: 8. Geomodernism, postcoloniality, and women's writing / Laura Doyle; title: 9. Women modernists and visual culture / Maggie Humm; title: 10. Modernism and trauma / Suzette A. Henke; title: 11. Political activism and women's modernism / Sowon S. Park; title: 12. Religion and the occult in women's modernism / Heather Ingman.