Women Making Modernism

Erica Gene Delsandro (Edited by)

9780813066172, University Press of Florida

Hardback, published 28 January 2020

256 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.513 kg

Challenging the tendency of scholars to view women writers of the modernist era as isolated artists who competed with one another for critical and cultural acceptance, Women Making Modernism reveals the robust networks women created and maintained that served as platforms and support for women's literary careers. This volume shows how women's writing communities interconnected to generate a current of energy, innovation, and ambition that was central to the modernist movement.

• Content
• Introduction
• 1. Writing Modernist Women: Towards a Poetics of Insubstantiality
• 2. The Haunting of Mary Hutchinson
• 3. Modernism and Middlebrow Through the Eyes of Object Studies
• 4. How Financial Speculation Created a Female Modernist Tradition
• 5. Bringing Women Together, in Theory
• 6. Emma Goldman among the Avant-Garde
• 7. Fantasies of Belonging, Fears of Precarity
• 8. Virginia Woolf and Mina Loy: Modernist Affiliations
• 9. Iconic Shade and Other Professional Hazards of Woolf Scholarship