Rereading Modernism: New Directions in Feminist Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780415752367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Lisa Rado

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Lisa Rado (Harvard Westlake Upper School, CA, USA)