By Bonnie Kime Scott
"... a useful reduction to the reconfiguration of literary modernism and of the background of the fiction of the 1st 3 a long time of the 20 th century." -- Novel "... her readings of texts are rather shrewdpermanent and eminently readable." -- Tulsa experiences in Women's Literature"... a difficult and discerning learn of the modernist period." -- James Joyce Broadsheet (note: evaluation of quantity 1 only)"... hugely vital and fantastically written, developing a contextually wealthy cultural historical past of Anglo-American modernism. It wears its meticulous erudition calmly, synthesizing an important volume of study, a lot of it unique archival work." -- Signs"Through her considerate exploration of the lives and paintings of those 3 woman modernists, Scott shapes a brand new feminist literary historical past that effectively reconfigures modernism." -- Woolf stories AnnualIn this revisionary learn of modernism, Bonnie Kime Scott specializes in the literary and cultural contexts that formed Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Djuna Barnes. Her studying relies upon clean archival explorations, combining postmodern with feminist concept.
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It briefly investigates the sense of community and relation to tradition arrived at in works either written or situated in 1939, a year that has ushered in the end of modernism in most accounts. Why Woolf, West, and Barnes? In an era when identity politics are a major issue in the academy, I will concede that Woolf, West, and Barnes represent a narrow spectrum of the world's women, or even of the women of modernism. The Gender Page xxxviii of Modernism, the critical anthology for which I served as general editor, offered a wider sweep that included African American writers, women from colonial settings, and writers less associated with formal experiment, though its range, too, could be greatly expanded.
Though examples of what the New Critics emphasized in Page xxxii these texts can readily be found, it is important to do a sufficiently thorough reexamination, if only to have a better sense of the relations of women writers to these works. Rather than offering the next in a long series of intergenerational renunciations of feminist precursors, I am pursuing a strategy of strategic attachment, closer to the tactics of the women writers of modernism. This is designed most fundamentally to reattach to three modernist women writerssufficiently distant in time to be our critical grandmothers, or even our great-grandmothersfrom beyond the postmodern divide.
9. Barnes, DjunaCriticism and interpretation. 10. Modernism (Literature)United States. I. Title. 91099287dc20 95-3579 1 2 3 4 5 00 99 98 97 96 95 Page v For Tom my lasting attachment and in search of Bhima Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction xv PART ONE: BEGINNINGS 1. (Dys)functional Families 3 2. Edwardian Uncles 19 3. Stretching the Scope of Suffrage 35 4. Midwives of Modernism 55 PART TWO: THE MEN OF 1914 5. Ezra Pound: Plunging Headlong into Female Chaos 84 6.
