Gendered Modernisms

by Dickie, Margaret; Travisano, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780812215502
• ISBN10: 0812215508
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Recovering the Repression in Stein's Erotic Poetry	p. 3
History as Conjugation: Stein's Stanzas in Meditation and the Literary History of the Modernist Long Poem	p. 26
H. D. (1886-1961)
H. D., Modernism, and the Transgressive Sexualities of Decadent-Romantic Platonism	p. 45
Pornopoeia, the Modernist Canon, and the Cultural Capital of Sexual Literacy: The Case of H. D.	p. 69
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
"So As to Be One Having Some Way of Being One Having Some Way of Working": Marianne Moore and Literary Tradition	p. 97
"The Frigate Pelican"'s Progress: Marianne Moore's Multiple Versions and Modernist Practice	p. 117
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Jouissance and the Sentimental Daughter: Edna St. Vincent Millay	p. 143
Antimodern, Modern, and Postmodern Millay: Contexts of Revaluation	p. 170
Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991)
Laura (Riding) Jackson's "Really New" Poem	p. 191
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon	p. 217
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Muriel Rukeyser and Her Literary Critics	p. 247
"The Buried Life and the Body of Waking": Muriel Rukeyser and the Politics of Literary History	p. 264
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- )
Whose Canon? Gwendolyn Brooks: Founder at the Center of the "Margins"	p. 283
Contributors	p. 313
Index	p. 315
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