Modernism in the Green: Public Greens in Modern Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032236568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 234 str.

Julia E. Daniel; Margaret Konkol

Opis

Modernism in the Green traces a trans-Atlantic modernist fascination with the creation, use, and representation of the modern green. In its focus on designed and public green zones, Modernism in the Green offers a new perspective on modernism’s overlapping investments.

Spis treści

Introduction

Julia E. Daniel and Margaret Konkol

Section 1: Green Grounds

"Free Land": Central Park and Racial Erasure in the Proslavery United States

Allison Siehnel

Hospital, Parlor, Fresco, Posey: Metaphors for Parks in the Public Lectures of Frederick Law Olmsted

Julia E. Daniel

Modernist Picturesque: Representing Urban Green Space on London Transport Posters, 1908-1940

Nora Kuster

By Chicago, For Chicago? Listening for the City in the Creation of Grant Park Music Festival

Katherine Brucher

Section 2: Green Texts

A Modernist Walk in the Park with Virginia Woolf

Bonnie Kime Scott

Green Agoraphobia: Architectural Cures in Baudelaire and Kafka

Yelizaveta Goldfarb Moss

Park Blues: Langston Hughes, Racial Exclusion, and the Park Ballad

Margaret Konkol

A More-Than-Human Green: National Parks and Animality in Marianne Moore’s "An Octopus"

Hatley Clifford

The Way of the Road: Travelling through Yosemite National Park in Gertrude Stein’s Everybody’s Autobiography

Maxwell Woods

The Imagination’s Meadows in William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All

Michael D. Sloane

O autorze

Julia E. Daniel is an Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University. Her research interests include modern American poetics and urban ecocriticism, as seen in her book Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning. Her work has also appeared in The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Modernist Poetry, Modern Drama, and Critical Quarterly.

Margaret Konkol is an Assistant Professor of American literature and digital humanities at Old Dominion University. She is completing a book "Modernizing Nature: Modernist Poetry, Gender, Race, and Civic Space" which discusses poetry’s role in civic debates about the naturalness of rapidly modernizing gender and race hierarchies which were on display in public parks and gardens. Her essays and review essays appear in Hybrid Pedagogy, Modernism/modernity, Paideuma, and Textus: English Studies in Italy.