Gendered modernisms : American women poets and their readers

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Label

Gendered modernisms : American women poets and their readers

Title remainder

American women poets and their readers

Statement of responsibility

edited by Margaret Dickie and Thomas Travisano

Contributor

• Dickie, Margaret, 1935-
• Travisano, Thomas, 1951-

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• American poetry
• American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American poetry -- Women authors
• American poetry -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Authors and readers
• Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Bishop, Elizabeth, Schriftstellerin
• Books and reading
• Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Brooks, Gwendolyn
• Canon (Literature)
• Canon (Literature)
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Doolittle, Hilda
• Frauenlyrik
• History
• Jackson, Laura
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent
• Modernism (Literature)
• Modernism (Literature) -- United States
• Moore, Marianne
• Rezeption
• Rukeyser, Muriel
• Schriftstellerin
• Stein, Gertrude
• USA
• United States
• Women and literature
• Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

An American poetic modernism that includes the works of women writers emerges as something far richer than the male-dominated movement whose contours have been so often charted. Gendered, modernism reaches to the political left as well as to the right. Gendered, modernism contends with questions of sexuality, eroticism, and pornography, as well as domesticity and sentimentality. Gendered, modernism can configure issues of race and class from the position of the deracinated and dispossessed. Gendered, modernism becomes sexier, more violent, more personal, more subversive. Gendered Modernisms offers thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H.D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks, demonstrating how consideration of these women expands the social, textual, and political boundaries of modernism. The collection places these poets in the context of their times, examining the conditions that helped shape their vivid and diverse poetic careers and reconsidering some of the assumptions that have led to their exclusion from the main narratives of modernist poetry. Ultimately, the book's aim is to enlarge the literary history of the movement - for gendered, modernism extends backward to the first years of the century, and forward to the beginnings of postmodernism in the 1960s

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PS310.M57

LC item number

G46 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography