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Title:

Women's experience of modernity, 1875-1945 / edited by Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

vii, 312 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.

Other Authors:

Lewis, Leslie W., 1960-
Ardis, Ann L., 1957-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Afterword / Rita Felski PART III. The shifting terrain of public life -- Writing a public self: Alice Meynell's "Unstable equilibrium" / Talia Schaffer -- Towards a new "colored" consciousness: biracial identity in Pauline Hopkin's fiction / Leslie W. Lewis -- Authority of experience: Jane Addams and hull-house / Francesca Sawaya -- "This other Eden": homoeroticism and the Great War in the early poetry of H.D. and Radclyffe Hall / Claire Buck -- Heir unapparent: Opal Whitely and the female as child in America / Deborah Garfield -- PART II. Outside the metropolis -- In-between modernity: Toru Dutt (1856-1877) from a postcolonial perspective / Alpana Sharma -- New Negro modernity: Worldliness and interiority in the novels of Emma Dunham Kelly-Hawkins / Carla L. Peterson -- Olive Schreiner, South Africa, and the costs of modernity / Carolyn Burdett -- "Tropical ovaries": gynecological degeneration and Lady Arabella's "female difficulties" in Bram Stoker's The lair of the white worm / Piya Pal-Lapinski -- Two talks with Khun Fa / Lynn Theismeyer -- PART III. The shifting terrain of public life -- "Stage business" as citizenship: Ida B. Wells at the world's Columbian exposition / James C. Davis -- Phenomena in flux: the aesthetics and politics of traveling in modernity / Ana Parejo Vadillo -- New woman's appetite for "riotous living": Rebecca West, modernist feminism, and the everyday / Barbara Green -- Djuna Bernes makes a specialty of crime: violence and the visual in her early journalism / Katherine Biers -- In pursuit of an erogamic life: Marie Stopes and the culture of Married love / Lucy Burke -- Shift work: observing women observing, 1937-1945 / Julian Yates -- Afterword / Rita Felski

ISBN:

9780801869358 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0801869358 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48710985

LCCN:

2001008647

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)