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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, Blue Ridge Summit
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...
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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. Cover -- Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement -- Series Page -- Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Women's Work as Modernist Engagement -- Part II: Modernism, Social Movements, and Advocacy -- Part III: Political Radicals and Modernism -- Part IV: Modernist Social Engagement in its Global Context -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I -- Women's Work as Modernist Engagement -- Chapter 1 -- Resisting Dismissal -- Middlebrow Modernisms -- Modern Women in the Workplace -- Working-Class Women as Protagonists and Professionals -- Insisting on Personal and Social Agency -- Resisting Critical Dismissal -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- Virginia Lee Burton's "Just Sentimental Talk" -- Burton's Feminist Engagement with the Folly Cove Designers -- Modern Gender, Technology, and Time -- Old and New Technology in Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel -- Rural and Urban Spaces in The Little House -- Gender Roles and Expectations in Katy and the Big Snow -- Collective Action and Socially Engaged Modernist Children's Writing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- "In Harmony with the Desert" -- No Turning Back as a Modernist Text -- Polingaysi Qoyawayma and Educational Reform -- Religion and Domesticity: Modeling a Syncretic Subjectivity in No Turning Back -- Syncretic Modernist Form in No Turning Back -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II -- Modernism, Social Movements, and Advocacy -- Chapter 4 -- Gertrude Stein and College Education for Women -- A Strategic Incongruity of Gender in "The Value of College Education for Women" -- Medical Constructions of Gender in "Degeneration in American Women" -- The Return of a Strategic Incongruity of Gender in the Preface to Fernhurst -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- Unclassified.
