Julia E. Daniel, Margaret Konkol

Modernism in the Green (eBook, ePUB)

Public Greens in Modern Literature and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Modernism in the Green traces a trans-Atlantic modernist fascination with the creation, use, and representation of the modern green. In its focus on designed and public green zones, Modernism in the Green offers a new perspective on modernism's overlapping investments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000596748
• Artikelnr.: 59221344

Autorenporträt

Julia E. Daniel is an Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University. Her research interests include modern American poetics and urban ecocriticism, as seen in her book Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning. Her work has also appeared in The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Modernist Poetry, Modern Drama, and Critical Quarterly.

Margaret Konkol is an Assistant Professor of American literature and digital humanities at Old Dominion University. She is completing a book "Modernizing Nature: Modernist Poetry, Gender, Race, and Civic Space" which discusses poetry's role in civic debates about the naturalness of rapidly modernizing gender and race hierarchies which were on display in public parks and gardens. Her essays and review essays appear in Hybrid Pedagogy, Modernism/modernity, Paideuma, and Textus: English Studies in Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Julia E. Daniel and Margaret Konkol
Section 1: Green Grounds
"Free Land": Central Park and Racial Erasure in the Proslavery United
States
Allison Siehnel
Hospital, Parlor, Fresco, Posey: Metaphors for Parks in the Public Lectures
of Frederick Law Olmsted
Julia E. Daniel
Modernist Picturesque: Representing Urban Green Space on London Transport
Posters, 1908-1940
Nora Kuster
By Chicago, For Chicago? Listening for the City in the Creation of Grant
Park Music Festival
Katherine Brucher
Section 2: Green Texts
A Modernist Walk in the Park with Virginia Woolf
Bonnie Kime Scott
Green Agoraphobia: Architectural Cures in Baudelaire and Kafka
Yelizaveta Goldfarb Moss
Park Blues: Langston Hughes, Racial Exclusion, and the Park Ballad
Margaret Konkol
A More-Than-Human Green: National Parks and Animality in Marianne Moore's
"An Octopus"
Hatley Clifford
The Way of the Road: Travelling through Yosemite National Park in Gertrude
Stein's Everybody's Autobiography
Maxwell Woods
The Imagination's Meadows in William Carlos Williams's Spring and All
Michael D. Sloane