Modernist women writers and American social engagement /
"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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2019]
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| Series: | Innovation and activism in American women's writing.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : modernist women writers and American social engagement / Jody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, and Julia Lisella
- Resisting dismissal : working-class women in the popular fiction of Edna Ferber and Mary Roberts Rinehart / Windy Counsell Petrie
- Virginia Lee Burton's "Tust sentimental talk" : modernist children's literature and collective action / Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan
- "In harmony with the desert" : syncretic modernism in Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No turning back / Amanda J. Zink
- Gertrude Stein and college education for women : early activism and its modernist legacy / Jody Cardinal
- Unclassified : the political feminism of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Sonnets from an ungrafted tree" / Linda Martin
- Anne Spencer's epistolary activism / Lesley Wheeler
- Lola ridge, modernism, and the poetics of radical sentimentalism / Nathaniel Cadle
- Radical re-invention of the lyric in Genevieve Taggard's Poems of Hawai'i / Julia Lisella
- Politics, rhetoric, and death in Katherine Anne Porter / William Solomon
- "Is it time?" : modernist experimentation and Harlem Renaissance prophecy in Marita Bonner's The purple flower / Laura Dawkins
- Economics, nation, and family in Mina Loy's Anglo-mongrels and the rose / Linda A. Kinnahan
- Anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, anti-war : the political alter-egos of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore in 1930s Britain / Celena Kusch.