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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jody Cardinal; Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan and Julia Lisella - Contributions by Nathaniel Cadle; Jody Cardinal; Laura Dawkins; Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan; Linda A. Kinnahan; Celena Kusch; Julia Lisella; Linda Martin; Windy Counsell Petrie; William Solomon; L Klappentext Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism through an examination of a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers. Zusammenfassung Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism through an examination of a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Modernist Women Writers and American Social EngagementJody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, and Julia LisellaPart I: Women's Work as Modernist Engagement1. Resisting Dismissal: Working-Class Women in the Popular Fiction of Edna Ferber and Mary Roberts RinehartWindy Counsell Petrie2. Virginia Lee Burton's "Just Sentimental Talk": Modernist Children's Literature and Collective ActionDeirdre E. Egan-Ryan3. "In Harmony with the Desert": Syncretic Modernism in Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No Turning BackAmanda J. Zink Part II: Modernism, Social Movements, and Advocacy4. Gertrude Stein and College Education for Women: Early Activism and its Modernist LegacyJody Cardinal5. Unclassified: The Political Feminism of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree"Linda Martin6. Anne Spencer's Epistolary ActivismLesley WheelerPart III: Political Radicals and Modernism 7. Lola Ridge, Modernism, and the Poetics of Radical SentimentalismNathaniel Cadle8. Radical Re-Invention of the Lyric in Genevieve Taggard's Poems of Hawai'iJulia Lisella9. Politics, Rhetoric, and Death in Katherine Anne PorterWilliam SolomonPart IV: Modernist Social Engagement in its Global Context10. "Is it time?": Modernist Experimentation and Harlem Renaissance Prophecy inMarita Bonner's The Purple FlowerLaura Dawkins11. Economics, Nation, and Family in Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the RoseLinda A. Kinnahan12. Anti-Fascist, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War: The Political Alter-Egos of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore in 1930s BritainCelena KuschIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors...
