Experimental lives : women and literature, 1900-1945

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Experimental lives : women and literature, 1900-1945

Title remainder

women and literature, 1900-1945

Statement of responsibility

Mary Loeffelholz

Creator

• Loeffelholz, Mary, 1958-

Subject

• American literature
• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American literature -- Women authors
• American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• American literature | History and criticism | 20th century
• American literature | Women authors | History and criticism
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Engels
• Englisch
• English literature
• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Women authors
• English literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• English literature | History and criticism | 20th century
• English literature | Women authors | History and criticism
• English-speaking countries
• Frau
• Frauenliteratur
• Geschichte 1900-1945
• Großbritannien
• History
• Letterkunde
• Literatur
• Schriftstellerin
• USA
• Vrouwelijke auteurs
• Women and literature
• Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century
• Women and literature | History | 20th century | English-speaking countries
• 1900 - 1999

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Women's experience in the first half of the twentieth century was shaped by changes in their legal status, education, employment, and by their struggle for a redefinition of themselves and their place in society. Rejecting the literary and cultural assumptions of the Victorian and Edwardian periods, women novelists, poets, and playwrights of the modernist period used such innovations as shifting narrators, unconventional plots, imagism and symbolism, and the interior monologue to challenge literary and social traditions. Women of this experimental literary period--diverse writers ranging from Amy Lowell and Hilda Doolittle to Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston--explored such themes as the nature of the self and of consciousness, the role of women and of the artist, and political, social, and personal oppression." "In Experimental Lives Mary Loeffelholz examines the contributions of a broad range of women writers, providing a much-needed revision of the modernist canon and demonstrating the variety and originality of women's writing in this period. In such chapters as "The Women of Imagism," "British Women Novelists," and "Expatriates and Experimentalists," Loeffelholz discusses--by genre and theme--the different streams within the modernist movement, and analyzes the relationships between them. The study challenges traditional, male-oriented interpretations of the modernist period and comments in current criticism, from Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's work to that of Toril Moi and Cary Nelson. Highlighting the volume is a foreword by noted feminist scholar Josephine Donovan. Experimental Lives is a stimulating, in-depth, and comprehensive critical guide that restores women's experience and writing to their rightful place in our understanding of this enormously creative and influential literary period."--Jacket

Member of

• Twayne's women and literature series

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PR116

LC item number

.L64 1992

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography