From the modernist annex [[electronic resource] ] : American women writers in museums and libraries / / Karin Roffman

• Autore: Roffman Karin
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/39
• Soggetto topico: Women authors, American; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Libraries and women - United States - History; Museums and women - United States - History; Libraries in literature; Museums in literature; Libraries - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Museums - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-246) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Women and the mutual development of museums and libraries -- Museums and memory in Edith Wharton's modern novels -- Nella Larsen, librarian at 135th Street -- Accidents happen in Marianne Moore's native habitat -- Finding freedom from museums and libraries in Ruth Benedict's poetry -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman's close readings of four modernist writers-Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Marianne Moore, and Ruth Benedict-she studied the that modernist women writers were simultaneously critical of and shaped by these institutions. From the Modernist Annex offers new and critically significant w
• Titolo autorizzato: From the modernist annex
• ISBN: 0-8173-8396-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460021403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II