Anna Snaith

Modernist Voyages

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines colonial women writers who traveled to London in the modernist period, and the significance of gender to empire and modernism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780521515450
• ISBN-10: 0521515459
• Artikelnr.: 40443090

Autorenporträt

Anna Snaith is a Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at King's College London. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto and a PhD from University College London. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations (2000), editor of Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies (2007) and co-editor of Locating Woolf: The Politics of Space and Place (with Michael Whitworth, 2007). She recently edited Virginia Woolf's The Years for the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Olive Schreiner: diamonds, prostitution and From Man to Man
2. Sarojini Naidu: feminist nationalism and cross-cultural poetics
3. Sara Jeannette Duncan: A Canadian Girl in London
4. Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernism and the magazines
5. Jean Rhys: 'A Savage from the Cannibal Islands'
6. Una Marson: 'Little brown girl' in a 'white, white city'
7. Christina Stead: transnationalism and the sea voyage
Afterword
Bibliography.