Includes bibliographical references (pages[209]-220) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Ordinary Matters, Modernity and Women's Modernism -- "I am part of the dense smooth clean paving stone": The Street in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage -- Extraordinary Actuality: Helen Levitt's Streets -- Homely Things: Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf -- Mrs Brown and the Face-to-Face -- Dorothea Lange: On Photographing the Familiar -- Banalities of Evil: Lee Miller's Ethics of Seeing War -- Coda: Margaret Monck and the Labour of the Everyday.
Summary:
"The first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography that demonstrates how their alternative vision of the everyday extends, and often complicates, that of their male contemporaries as well as contemporary everyday life theory"-- Provided by publisher.
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