From the Modernist Annex
American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries
The University of Alabama Press author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
Published:30th Apr '10
Should be back in stock very soon
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman's close readings of four modernist writers - Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Marianne Moore, and Ruth Benedict - she studied that modernist women writers were simultaneously critical of and shaped by these institutions. ""From the Modernist Annex"" offers new and critically significant ways of understanding these writers and their texts, the distribution of knowledge, and the complicated place of women in modernist institutions.
"This book has, at its heart, a smart and illuminating thesis about women modernists' complex engagement with and analyses of various modern cultural and educational institutions." - Francesca Sawaya, associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 "From the Modernist Annex is an original and significant contribution to the field of modern American literature studies, and in particular the field of cultural studies." - Mary McAleer Balkun, Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University and the author of The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture"
ISBN: 9780817316983
Dimensions: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
Weight: 589g