Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement (eBook)

Jody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, Julia Lisella (Herausgeber)

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2019
326 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8291-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism through an examination of a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers.

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Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers, this collection uncovers an obscured strain of modernist activism. Each chapter provides a detailed cultural and literary analysis, revealing the ways in which modernists' politically and socially engaged interventions shaped their writing. Considering issues such as working class women's advocacy, educational reform, political radicalism, and the global implications for American literary production, this book examines the complexity of the relationship between creating art and fostering social change. Ultimately, this collection redefines the parameters of modernism while also broadening the conception of social engagement to include both readily acknowledged social movements as well as less recognizable forms of advocacy for social change.

Autor

Jody Cardinal is director of the Writing Center at the State University of New York, Old Westbury.Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan is associate professor of English at St. Norbert College.Julia Lisella is associate professor of English at Regis College.

Inhalt

ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Modernist Women Writers and American Social EngagementJody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, and Julia LisellaPart I: Women’s Work as Modernist Engagement1 Resisting Dismissal: Working-Class Women in the Popular Fiction of Edna Ferber and Mary Roberts RinehartWindy Counsell Petrie2 Virginia Lee Burton’s “Just Sentimental Talk”: Modernist Children’s Literature and Collective ActionDeirdre E. Egan-Ryan3“In Harmony with the Desert”: Syncretic Modernism in Polingaysi Qoyawayma’s No Turning BackAmanda J. Zink Part II: Modernism, Social Movements, and Advocacy4 Gertrude Stein and College Education for Women: Early Activism and its Modernist LegacyJody Cardinal5 Unclassified: The Political Feminism of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree”Linda Martin6Anne Spencer’s Epistolary ActivismLesley WheelerPart III: Political Radicals and Modernism 7 Lola Ridge, Modernism, and the Poetics of Radical SentimentalismNathaniel Cadle8Radical Re-Invention of the Lyric in Genevieve Taggard’s Poems of Hawai‘iJulia Lisella9Politics, Rhetoric, and Death in Katherine Anne PorterWilliam SolomonPart IV: Modernist Social Engagement in its Global Context10“Is it time?”: Modernist Experimentation and Harlem Renaissance Prophecy inMarita Bonner’s The Purple FlowerLaura Dawkins11Economics, Nation, and Family in Mina Loy’s Anglo-Mongrels and the RoseLinda A. Kinnahan12Anti-Fascist, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War: The Political Alter-Egos of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore in 1930s BritainCelena KuschIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing
• Co-Autor: Nathaniel Cadle, William Solomon, Lesley Wheeler, Amanda J. Zink, Jody Cardinal, Laura Dawkins, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, Linda A. Kinnahan, Celena Kusch, Julia Lisella, Linda Martin, Windy Counsell Petrie
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: activism • American Literature • American Modernism • Children's literature • Civil Rights • Fiction • modernism • Poetry • Politics • women's rights • Women Writers
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8291-5 / 1498582915
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8291-9 / 9781498582919