Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers

by Margaret Dickie (Editor), Thomas Travisano (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812233124
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	02/22/1996
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Editorial Reviews

This essay collection reexamines the work of eight modern American women poets: Gertrude Stein, H.D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Although each is well known, they uniformly maintained positions outside the modernist canon by choice and exclusion. Rereading modernism including these women's poetry engenders a new complexity, the movement emerging as far more sexy, violent, personal, and subversive than non-gendered studies lead the reader to believe. The contributors to this volume seek to understand these complexities in relationship to: readers, literary society, history, sexuality, gender, politics, modernism, and postmodernism. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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