The gender of modernism : a critical anthology

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The gender of modernism : a critical anthology

edited by Bonnie Kime Scott ; contributing editors, Mary Lynn Broe ... [et al.]

Indiana University Press, c1990

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Bibliography: p. 702-709

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"This is the book we've been waiting for: a distinguished collection that demonstrates how revisions of Modernist definitions might proceed. . . . The Gender of Modernism . . . will be nothing less than an absolutely necessary text for Modernist studies." -Shari Benstock "Scott and her contributing editors . . . effectively [bring] together the issues of gender and modernism into a volume recommended for reference and classroom use." -James Joyce Literary Supplement " . . . a treasure trove for anyone interested in the literature and history of modern times." -Susan Gubar Authors included are: Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, Nancy Cunard, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Jessie Redmond Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, James Joyce, Nella Larsen, D.H. Lawrence, Mina Loy, Rose Macaulay, Hugh MacDiarmid, Katherine Mansfield, Charlotte Mew, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Jean Rhys, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West, Antonia White, Anna Wickham, and Virginia Woolf.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Djuna Barnes Mother To the Dogs The Confessions of Helen Westley 2. Willa Cather The Novel Demeuble 3. Nancy Cunard Black Man and White Ladyship Harlem Reviewed The American Moron and the American of Sense-Letters on the Negro Letter to Ezra Pound 4. H.D. Notes on Thought and Vision The Borderline Pamphlet Marianne Moore Responsibilities Joan of Arc Letters to Amy Lowell Letters to Marianne Moore 5. T.S. Eliot Introduction to Djuna Barnes's Nightwood Review of Marianne Moore's Poems and Marriage Introduction to Marianne Moore's Selected Poems 6. Jessie Redmon Fauset As to Books Review of Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes Foreword to The Chinaberry Tree From the Bun 7. Zora Neale Hurston Characteristics of Negro Expression Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals Big Sweet (From Dust Tracks on a Road) Stories of Conflict 8. James Joyce Stephen's Interview with His Mother (From Stephen Hero) Letter to Nora Barnacle 9. Nella Larsen Letter on Walter White's Flight Letter to Carl Van Vechten 10. D.H. Lawrence Matriarchy Cocksure Women and Hensure Men 11. Mina Loy Gertrude Stein Aphorisms on Futurism The Ineffectual Marriage Joyce's Ulysses Brancusi's Golden Bird 12. Rose Macaulay Afternoon Out (From Non-Combatants and Others) Evening in Church (From Non-Combatants and Others) Alix, Nicholas, and West (From Non-Combatants and Others) Second Period: Smash (From Told by an Idiot) Following the Fashion Album 13. Hugh MacDiarmid Following Rebecca West in Edinburgh: A Monologue in the Vernacular (With Glossary) 14. Katherine Mansfield From Early Journal From Letters to John Middleton Murry The Flowering of the Self (From Journal, 1920) On Vaihinger (From Journal, 1921) Three Women Novelists (From Review of Dorothy Richardson's The Tunnel) Dragonflies (From Review of Richardson's Interim) The New Infancy (Review of May Sinclair's Mary Olivier) A Ship Comes into the Harbour (Review of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day) A Novel without a Crisis (From Review of Vita Sackville-West's Heritage) 15. Charlotte Mew Absence The Cenotaph 16. Marianne Moore From the Correspondence If I Were Sixteen Today Charlotte Bronte Well Moused, Lion Archaically New Hymen 17. Ezra Pound Letter to Marianne Moore, 16 December 1918 Doggerel Section of Letter to Marianne Moore "Others" (with Margaret Anderson's Annotation) Suffragettes 18. Jean Rhys Vienne Voyage in the Dark: Part IV (Original Version) Ghost Writing 19. Dorothy Richardson From "In the Crank's Library": In the Days of the Comet The Reality of Feminism Talent and Genius Women and the Future About Punctuation Women in the Arts Continuous Performance: The Film Gone Male Adventure for Readers Foreword to Pilgrimage Novels 20. May Sinclair The Novels of Dorothy Richardson "Prufrock: And Other Observations": A Criticism The Poems of "H.D." The Reputation of Ezra Pound "The Future of the Novel": An Interview 21. Gertrude Stein How Writing is Written What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them A Transatlantic Interview 1946 Americans White Wines Play A Description of the Fifteenth of November: A Portrait of T.S. Eliot Sitwell Edith Sitwell To Kitty or Kate Buss 22. Sylvia Townsend Warner Women as Writers Cottage Mantleshelf Bluebeard's Daughter 23. Rebecca West Trees of Gold The "Freewomen" Spinster to the Rescue The World's Worst Failure Reply to D.H. Lawrence's "Good Boy Husbands" What Is Mr. T.S. Eliot's Authority as a Critic? High Fountain of Genius 24. Antonia White The House of Clouds 25. Anna Wickham Song of the Low-Caste Wife Divorce The Angry Woman 26. Virginia Woolf Modern Fiction From "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" Modern Novels (Joyce) Cultural Critique The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn From "Bryon and Mr. Briggs" Notes for Reading at Random Anon The Reader Selected Bibliography Contributors Index

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