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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820505503321

Autore

Dowson Jane <1955-, >

Titolo

Women, modernism and British poetry, 1910-1939 : resisting femininity / / Jane Dowson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-138-25645-5

1-315-23359-2

1-351-87151-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 pages)

Disciplina

821/.912099287

Soggetti

English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The literary context -- 3. Rear-guard modernism -- 4. The British avant-garde : Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) and the women of Wheels - Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), Iris tree (1897-1968) and Helen Rootham (d. 1938) -- 5. The Anglo-American avant-garde : H.D. (1886-1961), Amy Lowell (1874-1925), Marianne Moore (1887-1972), Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991), Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Mina Loy (1882-1966) -- 6. Female modernism -- 7. The 1930s : cultural politics and the poetry of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Nancy Cunard, Winifred Holtby, Naomi Mitchison and Stevie Smith -- 8. Conclusion : the legacy of modernism.