Modernist Voyages - Colonial Women Writers in London, 18901945

This book examines colonial women writers who traveled to London in the modernist period, and the significance of gender to empire and modernism.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Olive Schreiner: diamonds, prostitution and From Man to Man; 2. Sarojini Naidu: feminist nationalism and cross-cultural poetics; 3. Sara Jeannette Duncan: A Canadian Girl in London; 4. Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernism and the magazines; 5. Jean Rhys: 'A Savage from the Cannibal Islands'; 6. Una Marson: 'Little brown girl' in a 'white, white city'; 7. Christina Stead: transnationalism and the sea voyage; Afterword; Bibliography.

About the author

Anna Snaith is a Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at King's College London. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto and a PhD from University College London. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations (2000), editor of Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies (2007) and co-editor of Locating Woolf: The Politics of Space and Place (with Michael Whitworth, 2007). She recently edited Virginia Woolf's The Years for the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (2012).

Summary

This book examines colonial women writers who traveled to London in the modernist period, and the significance of gender to the interwoven nature of empire and modernism. Anna Snaith's wide-ranging study shows how the works of Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Una Marson and others renegotiated the position of women within the British Empire.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Snaith, Anna (King's College London) Snaith, Anna (King''s College London) Snaith, Snaith Anna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2017
• EAN: 9781316638002
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63800-2
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; European History, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: general, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000