Mary Wilson

The Labors of Modernism

Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In The Labors of Modernism, Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen and Jean Rhys. She shows that the liminal position of servants in these texts forces the reader to recognize servants not just as characters, but as conditions for the production of literature and of the homes in which literature is created.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781138270305
• ISBN-10: 113827030X
• Artikelnr.: 57054977

Autorenporträt

Mary Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at Christopher Newport University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: reading, writing, serving: the thresholds of modernism
Cooks at the threshold: domestic disturbances and modernist rewritings in the writing of Virginia Woolf
Writing at the margins: Stein's servant protagonists and the modernist form of Three Lives
'Working like a colored person': race, service, and identity in Passing
Women in the attic: domestic servants, imperial paranoia, and modernist domesticity in Wide Sargasso Sea
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.