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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511688403321

Autore

Bucur Maria <1968->

Titolo

Gendering modernism : a historical reappraisal of the canon / / Maria Bucur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2017

ISBN

1-350-02627-1

1-350-02623-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

700/.4522

Soggetti

Arts and society - History - 20th century

Arts, Modern - Philosophy

Arts, Modern - 20th century

Sex role - History - 20th century

Social movements - History - 20th century

Women and the arts - Europe - History - 20th century

Women and the arts - United States - History - 20th century

Europe Intellectual life 20th century

United States Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- Introduction: What Sort of Rebellion? -- 1. Modernism before the Great War -- 2. Modernism Flourishes -- 3. The Modernist Canon : How Did it Come About? -- 4. A New Set of Criteria : Rebellion, Rejection, and Reimagining Modernism.

Sommario/riassunto

"Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms of the time shaped the rebellion of the self-avowed modernists and examining the impact of radical gender reformers on modernism. Focusing primarily on the connections between North American and European modernists, Maria Bucur explains why it is imperative that we consider the gender angles of modernism as a way to understand the legacies of the movement. She provides an overview of the scholarship on modernism and an



analysis of how definitions of modernism have evolved with that scholarship. Interweaving vivid case studies from before the Great War to the interwar period--looking at individual modernists from Ibsen to Picasso, Hannah Hòˆch to Josephine Baker--she covers various fields such as art, literature, theatre and film, whilst also demonstrating how modernism manifested itself in the major social-political and cultural shifts of the 20th century, including suffragist feminism, psychology, sexology, eugenics, nudism, anarchism, communism and fascism. This is a fresh and wide-ranging investigation of modernism which expands our definition of the movement, integrating gender analysis and thereby opening up new lines of enquiry. Written in a lively and accessible style, Gendering Modernism is a crucial intervention into the literature which should be read by all students and scholars of the modernist movement as well 20th-century history and gender studies more broadly"--Provided by publisher.