Modernist Women’s Writing
Beyond the Threshold of Obsolescence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12879846 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Garrity (University of Colorado System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-29 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12043 |
| OpenAlex | W1913841393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 28 |
The new modernist studies has helped to expand the definition of modernism, but this move has simultaneously contributed to the marginalization of “women’s writing.” The rise of post‐structuralism, transnational and race studies, as well as queer and transgender theory, have all contributed to a more complicated and nuanced understanding of gender‐based analyses and their political import. However this move to expand the range and scope of our understanding of gender raises inevitable questions about the viability of the category of “modernist women’s writing.” This essay asks: What is the rationale for retaining a focus on “women’s writing”– and, more particularly, on experimental women’s writing – within modernist studies today, and how can we signal the continued vitality of this gender‐inflected area of scholarship without succumbing to the bewildering label, old‐fashioned
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Life writing · Literature · Modernism (music · Narrative · Obsolescence · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Scholarship · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Transgender · Vitality · Gender Studies · Law · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology
The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880–1950
Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel
Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel
England Through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction
Mappings
Middlebrow Moderns
Middlebrow literary cultures
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s
West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau
I am not a woman writer
Black Edwardians
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |