Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers (Anniversary Collection) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812233123 ISBN 13: 9780812233124

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1996

Synopsis

Thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H. D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrate how these women expand the social, textual, and political boundaries of modernism. The collection places these poets in the context of their times, examining the conditions that helped shape their vivid and diverse poetic careers and reconsidering some of the assumptions that have led to their exclusion from the main narratives of modernist poetry.

Ultimately, the aim is to enlarge the literary history of the movement—for gendered, modernism extends backward to the first years of the century, and forward to the beginnings of postmodernism in the 1960s.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Dickie is Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia. Thomas Travisano is Professor of English at Hartwick College.

From the Back Cover

An American poetic modernism that includes the works of women writers emerges as something far richer than the male-dominated movement whose contours have been so often charted. Gendered, modernism reaches to the political left as well as to the right. Gendered, modernism contends with questions of sexuality, eroticism, and pornography, as well as domesticity and sentimentality. Gendered, modernism can configure issues of race and class from the position of the deracinated and dispossessed. Gendered, modernism becomes sexier, more violent, more personal, more subversive. Gendered Modernisms offers thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H. D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks, demonstrating how consideration of these women expands the social, textual, and political boundaries of modernism. The collection places these poets in the context of their times, examining the conditions that helped shape their vivid and diverse poetic careers and reconsidering some of the assumptions that have led to their exclusion from the main narratives of modernist poetry. Ultimately, the book's aim is to enlarge the literary history of the movement - for gendered, modernism extends backward to the first years of the century, and forward to the beginnings of postmodernism in the 1960s.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812233123
• ISBN 13: 9780812233124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Dickie Margaret, Travisano Thomas