Communal Modernisms (eBook)

Robin Hackett, University of New Hampshire, USA Laurel Harris, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, USA Emily M. Hinnov, Granite State College, USA Rita Allison Kondrath, independent researcher Jane Marcus, independent researcher Noreen O'Connor, King's College, UK Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, University of Colorado, USA Lauren M. Rosenblum, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Bonnie Roos, West Texas A&M University, USA Judy Suh, Duquesne University, UK Vicki Tromanhauser, State University of New York, USA Emily Wojcik, University of Connecticut, USA

Introduction; Laurel Harris, Emily M. Hinnov and Lauren M. Rosenblum PART I: THE INFLUENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM ON LITERARY COMMUNAL MODERNISMS 1. Teaching Modernism through the Phantasmic Mother: Maternal Longing in Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Gertrude Käsebier's Photography; Emily M. Hinnov 2. Visual Pleasure and the Female Gaze: 'Inter-Active' Cinema in the Film Writing of H.D. and Dorothy Richardson; Laurel Harris 3. 'Things, Things, Things': Nella Larsen's Quicksand and the Beauty of Magazine Culture; Lauren M. Rosenblum PART II: THE POLITICS OF COMMUNAL MODERNISMS 4. Modernism and the Politics of Poverty: Teaching Lola Ridge, Jacob Riis, and Social Justice; Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega 5. Editing Children of the Sun: Jessie Redmon Fauset, Little Magazines, and the Cultivation of the New Negro; Emily Wojcik 6. Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark: Community, Race, and Empire; Judy Suh PART III: REINVENTION WITHIN COMMUNAL MODERNISMS 7. 'War trod her low': Recovery and Community in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Opus 7; Rita Kondrath 8. From Alienation to Coven: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Utopian Modernism; Noreen O'Conner 9. 'The Look in a Dog's Eyes': The Animals in the Dining Room in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September; Vicki Tromanhauser 10. The Unwritten Narrative of Modernism and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood; Bonnie Roos 11. Woolf and...: Teaching Besidedness; Robin Hackett Afterword 12. Some Notes on Radical Teaching; Jane Marcus