Excursions Into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body

ISBN-13: 9780367175771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str.

Joyce Kelley

Opis

Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism investigates the imaginative potential of travel for women writers, reading women's modernist fiction in tandem with women's travel narratives. Drawing on a range of archival materials, she offers rich revisionary readings of canonical and lesser-known texts ranging from Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark to Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out and from Evelyn Scott's Escapade to Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage.

Recenzje

'In her groundbreaking new book Excursions Into Modernism, Joyce E. Kelley shows how travel shaped the production of women’s imaginative fiction in ways not always acknowledged in conventional genealogies of modernism. By addressing issues of race and class, and by focusing on concepts such as illness, pregnancy, and even the piano, Kelley provides a rich, thoughtful, and rigorous reevaluation of the landscape of modernism even as she extends its geography not only externally on the globe but internally. Kelley's book will prove to be indispensable not only to the field of travel studies but to the new modernist studies as well.' David Farley, St John's University, USA

Spis treści

Introduction: women, travel, and the body; Increasingly imaginative geographies: excursions into otherness, fantasy, and Modernism in early 20^{th-century women’s travel writing; Narratives of passing: transdermal excursions in Larsen, Rhys, and Hall; Modernist fever: the ‘undiscovered countries’ of illness; ‘I am going on and on to the end of myself where something else begins’: travel, pregnancy, and Modernism; ‘It carried her out of the house, out of the world’: Modernist women writers and the piano; Conclusion: final excursions: Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; Bibliography; Index}

O autorze

Joyce E. Kelley is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, USA.