{"product_id":"modernist-women-writers-and-american-social-engagement-9781498582902","title":"Modernist Women Writers and American Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers, this collection uncovers an obscured strain of modernist activism. Each chapter provides a detailed cultural and literary analysis, revealing the ways in which modernists' politically and socially engaged interventions shaped their writing. Considering issues such as working class women's advocacy, educational reform, political radicalism, and the global implications for American literary production, this book examines the complexity of the relationship between creating art and fostering social change. Ultimately, this collection redefines the parameters of modernism while also broadening the conception of social engagement to include both readily acknowledged social movements as well as less recognizable forms of advocacy for s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement fills in important missing contexts surrounding modernist writing. Although scholars have understood for decades that modernism was not the rarefied, apolitical realm it was sometimes claimed to be, there is still a great deal of work to be done in showing just how modernist writing was politically engaged. In a series of absorbing essays, the authors treat an array of modernist writers, from the canonical to the middlebrow to the little known, bringing to the fore the myriad social and political commitments animating their work. -- Maren Tova Linett, Purdue University\u003cbr\u003eModernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement is a welcome addition to the scholarship on gender in modernism\/modernity, taking due notice of “middlebrow\" writers. The editors and contributors capably relate their work to previous study, expanding on its social concerns, genres, terminology, and the diversity of its canon. The collection contains little-known examples of authors’ activism and encourages comparison of diverse arenas and expressions of social engagement. -- Bonnie Kime Scott, professor emerita, San Diego State University and the University of Delaware\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents    Acknowledgments     Introduction: Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement  Jody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, and Julia Lisella    Part I: Women’s Work as Modernist Engagement    1. Resisting Dismissal: Working-Class Women in the Popular Fiction of Edna Ferber and Mary Roberts Rinehart  Windy Counsell Petrie  2. Virginia Lee Burton’s “Just Sentimental Talk”: Modernist Children’s Literature and Collective Action  Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan  3. “In Harmony with the Desert”: Syncretic Modernism in Polingaysi Qoyawayma’s No Turning Back  Amanda J. Zink     Part II: Modernism, Social Movements, and Advocacy    4. Gertrude Stein and College Education for Women: Early Activism and its Modernist Legacy  Jody Cardinal  5. Unclassified: The Political Feminism of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree”  Linda Martin  6. Anne Spencer’s Epistolary Activism  Lesley Wheeler    Part III: Political Radicals and Modernism     7. Lola Ridge, Modernism, and the Poetics of Radical Sentimentalism  Nathaniel Cadle  8. Radical Re-Invention of the Lyric in Genevieve Taggard’s Poems of Hawai‘i  Julia Lisella  9. Politics, Rhetoric, and Death in Katherine Anne Porter  William Solomon    Part IV: Modernist Social Engagement in its Global Context    10. “Is it time?”: Modernist Experimentation and Harlem Renaissance Prophecy inMarita Bonner’s The Purple Flower  Laura Dawkins  11. Economics, Nation, and Family in Mina Loy’s Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose  Linda A. Kinnahan  12. Anti-Fascist, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War: The Political Alter-Egos of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore in 1930s Britain  Celena Kusch    Index  About the Editors  About the Contributors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040839401815,"sku":"9781498582902","price":98.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498582902.jpg?v=1750948016","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernist-women-writers-and-american-social-engagement-9781498582902","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}