Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers

Title: Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers
Author: Margaret Dickie
Literary Criticism: 1700324
ISBN: 9780812215502
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Published: 1996
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Section: Literary Criticism | Poetry
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Publisher Description:

Thirteen original essays on Gertrude Stein, H. D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Elizabeth Bishop, Muriel Rukeyser, and Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrate how these women expand the social, textual, and political boundaries of modernism. The collection places these poets in the context of their times, examining the conditions that helped shape their vivid and diverse poetic careers and reconsidering some of the assumptions that have led to their exclusion from the main narratives of modernist poetry.

Ultimately, the aim is to enlarge the literary history of the movement--for gendered, modernism extends backward to the first years of the century, and forward to the beginnings of postmodernism in the 1960s.