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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455035203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

ISBN

9780801877601

0-8018-7760-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LewisLeslie W. <1960->

ArdisAnn L. <1957->

Disciplina

820.9/9287/09034

Soggetti

American literature - Women authors - 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 - Women authors - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain

Feminism and literature

Sex role in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Part I   Negotiating the Literary Marketplace; Writing a Public Self; Towards a New "Colored" Consciousness; The Authority of Experience; "This Other Eden"; The Heir Unapparent; Part II   Outside the Metropolis; In-Between Modernity; New Negro Modernity; Olive Schreiner, South Africa, and the Costs of Modernity; "Tropical Ovaries"; Two Talks with Khun Fa; "Stage Business" as Citizenship; Phenomena in Flux; Part III  The Shifting Terrain of Public Life; The New Woman's Appetite for "Riotous Living"; Djuna Barnes Makes a Specialty of Crime

In Pursuit of an Erogamic LifeShift Work; Afterword; NOTES ON



CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX