Modernist women writers and American social engagement. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, Julia Lisella.
• Editors: Cardinal, Jody; Egan-Ryan, Deirdre E; Lisella, Julia
• Contents: Contents ; ; ; Acknowledgments ; ; ; Introduction: Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement ; ; Jody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, and Julia Lisella ; ; ; Part I: Women’s Work as Modernist Engagement ; ; ; 1 Resisting Dismissal: Working-Class Women in the Popular Fiction of Edna Ferber and Mary Roberts Rinehart ; ; Windy Counsell Petrie ; ; 2 Virginia Lee Burton’s “Just Sentimental Talk”: Modernist Children’s Literature and Collective Action ; ; Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan ; ; 3“In Harmony with the Desert”: Syncretic Modernism in Polingaysi Qoyawayma’s No Turning Back ; ; Amanda J. Zink ; ; ; Part II: Modernism, Social Movements, and Advocacy ; ; ; 4 Gertrude Stein and College Education for Women: Early Activism and its Modernist Legacy ; ; Jody Cardinal ; ; 5 Unclassified: The Political Feminism of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree” ; ; Linda Martin ; ; 6Anne Spencer’s Epistolary Activism ; ; Lesley Wheeler ; ; ; Part III: Political Radicals and Modernism ; ; ; 7 Lola Ridge, Modernism, and the Poetics of Radical Sentimentalism ; ; Nathaniel Cadle ; ; 8Radical Re-Invention of the Lyric in Genevieve Taggard’s Poems of Hawai‘i ; ; Julia Lisella ; ; 9Politics, Rhetoric, and Death in Katherine Anne Porter ; ; William Solomon ; ; ; Part IV: Modernist Social Engagement in its Global Context ; ; ; 10“Is it time?”: Modernist Experimentation and Harlem Renaissance Prophecy inMarita Bonner’s The Purple Flower ; ; Laura Dawkins ; ; 11Economics, Nation, and Family in Mina Loy’s Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose ; ; Linda A. Kinnahan ; ; 12Anti-Fascist, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War: The Political Alter-Egos of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore in 1930s Britain ; ; Celena Kusch ; ; ; Index ; ; About the Editors ; ; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 810.992870904; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Political and social views; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498582919
• Related ISBNs: 9781498582902
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