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Overview
During this period, "women's experience" was a rallying cry for feminists, a unifying cause that allowed women to work together to effect social change and make claims for women's rights in terms of their access to the public world—as voters, paid laborers, political activists, and artists commenting on life in the modern world. Women's experience, however, also proved to be a source of great divisiveness among women, for claims about its universality quickly unraveled to reveal the classism, racism, and Eurocentrism of various feminist activities and organizations.
Complementing recent attempts to historicize literary modernism by providing more thorough analyses of its material production, the essays in this volume examine both literary and non-literary writings of Jane Addams, Djuna Barnes, Toru Dutt, Radclyffe Hall, H.D., Pauline Hopkins, Emma Dunham Kelley, Amy Levy, Alice Meynell, Bram Stoker, Ida B. Wells, Rebecca West, and others as discursive events that shape our conception of the historical real. Instead of focusing exclusively or even centrally on modernism and literature, these essays address a broad array of textual materials, from political pamphlets to gynecology textbooks, as they investigate women's responses to the rise of commodity capitalism, middle-class women's entrance into the labor force, the welfare state's invasion of the working-class home, and the intensified eroticization of racial and class differences.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780801869358 |
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Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Publication date: | 01/27/2003 |
Pages: | 328 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Leslie W. Lewis is an associate professor of English at the College of Saint Rose.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. Negotiating the Literary MarketplaceWriting a Public Self: Alice Meynell's "Unstable Equilibrium"Towards a New "Colored "Consciousness: Biracial Identity on Pauline Hopkins's FictionThe Authority of Experience: Jane Adams and Hull-House"This Other Eden": Homoeroticism and the Great War in the Early Poetry of H.D. and Radclyffe HallThe Heir Apparent: Opal Whiteley and the Female as Child in AmericaPart II. Outside the Metropolis In-Between Modernity: Toru Dutt (1856–1877) from a Postcolonial PerspectiveNew Negro Modernity: Worldliness and Interiority in the Novels of Emma Dunham Kelley-HawkinsOlive Schreiner, South Africa, and the Costs of Modernity"Tropical Ovaries": Gynecological Degeneration and Lady Arabella's "Female Difficulties"in Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White WormTwo Talks with Khun FaPart III. The Shifting Terrian of Public Life "Stage Business"as Citizenship: Ida B. Wells at the World's Columbian ExpositionPhenomena in Flux: The Aesthetics and Politics of Traveling in ModernityThe New Woman's Appetite for "Riotous Living": Rebecca West, Modernist Feminism, and the EverydayDjuna Barnes Makes a Specialty of Crime: Violence and the Visual in Her Early JournalismIn Pursuit of an Erogamic Life: Marie Stopes and the Culture of Married LoveShift Work: Observing Women Observing, 1937–1945AfterwordNotes on ContributorsIndexWhat People are Saying About This
By insisting that women's experience defines modernity, and by traversing modernist and literary boundaries, the contributors to this excellent volume both recover lost cultural resources and pursue fresh lines of feminist thinking. The essays reach back to Victorian pretexts to modernity, into imperial sites, and through a rich variety of commercial and public discourses. Required reading for scholars of modernism and the modern world.
By insisting that women's experience defines modernity, and by traversing modernist and literary boundaries, the contributors to this excellent volume both recover lost cultural resources and pursue fresh lines of feminist thinking. The essays reach back to Victorian pretexts to modernity, into imperial sites, and through a rich variety of commercial and public discourses. Required reading for scholars of modernism and the modern world.—Bonnie Kime Scott, San Diego State University