Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism through an examination of a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers.
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism through an examination of a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers.
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Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing
Jody Cardinal is director of the Writing Center at the State University of New York, Old Westbury. Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan is associate professor of English at St. Norbert College. Julia Lisella is associate professor of English at Regis College.
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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 6. Anne Spencer's Epistolary Activism Lesley Wheeler Part III: Political Radicals and Modernism 7. Lola Ridge, Modernism, and the Poetics of Radical Sentimentalism Nathaniel Cadle 8. Radical Re-Invention of the Lyric in Genevieve Taggard's Poems of Hawai'i Julia Lisella 9. Politics, 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 11. Economics, Nation, and Family in Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose Linda A. Kinnahan 12. Anti-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
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 6. Anne Spencer's Epistolary Activism Lesley Wheeler Part III: Political Radicals and Modernism 7. Lola Ridge, Modernism, and the Poetics of Radical Sentimentalism Nathaniel Cadle 8. Radical Re-Invention of the Lyric in Genevieve Taggard's Poems of Hawai'i Julia Lisella 9. Politics, 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 11. Economics, Nation, and Family in Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose Linda A. Kinnahan 12. Anti-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
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