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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955460503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 9780801877601; 0-8018-7760-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Instead of focusing exclusively or even centrally on modernism and literature, these essays address a broad array of textual materials, from political pamphlets to gynecology textbooks, as they investigate women's responses to the rise of commodity capitalism, middle-class women's entrance into the labor force, the welfare state's invasion of the working-class home, and the intensified eroticization of racial and class differences.