The Gender of Modernism

"This is the book we've been waiting for: a distinguished collection that demonstrates how revisions of Modernist definitions might proceed.... The Gender of Modernism... will be nothing less than an absolutely necessary text for Modernist studies." -- Shari Benstock"Scott and her contributing editors... effectively [bring] together the issues of gender and modernism into a volume recommended for reference and classroom use." -- James Joyce Literary Supplement"... a treasure trove for anyone interested in the literature and history of modern times." -- Susan GubarAuthors included are: Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, Nancy Cunard, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Jessie Redmond Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, James Joyce, Nella Larsen, D.H. Lawrence, Mina Loy, Rose Macaulay, Hugh MacDiarmid, Katherine Mansfield, Charlotte Mew, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Jean Rhys, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West, Antonia White, Anna Wickham, and Virginia Woolf.

Acknowledgments Introduction. Bonnie Kime Scott 1 Djuna Barnes Introduced by Mary Lynn Broe Mother To the Dogs The Confessions of Helen Westley 2 Willa Cather Introduced by Jane Lilienfeld The Novel Demeuble NancyOtilde;s Return (From Sapphira and the Slave Girl) 3 Nancy Cunard Introduced by Susan Stanford Friedman Black Man and White Ladyship Harlem Reviewed The American Moron and the American of Sense--Letters on the Negro Letter to Ezra Pound 4 H.D. Introduced by Susan Stanford Friedman Notes on Thought and Vision The Borderline Pamphlet Marianne Moore Responsibilities Joan of Arc Letters to Amy Lowell Letters to Marianne Moore 5 T.S. Eliot Introduced by Nancy K. Gish Introduction to Djuna BarnesOtilde;s Nightwood Review of Marianne MooreOtilde;s Poems and Marriage Introduction to Marianne MooreOtilde;s Selected Poems 6 Jessie Redmon Fauset Introduced by Cheryl A. Wall As to Books Review of Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes Foreword to The Chinaberry Tree From the Bun 7 Zora Neale Hurston Introduced by Cheryl A. Wall Characteristics of Negro Expression Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals Big Sweet (From Dust Tracks on a Road) Stories of Conflict 8 James Joyce Introduced by Bonnie Kime Scott StephenOtilde;s Interview with His Mother (From Stephen Hero) Letter to Nora Barnacle 9 Nella Larsen Introduced by Thadious M. Davis Letter on Walter WhiteOtilde;s Flight Letter to Carl Van Vechten 10 D.H. Lawrence Introduced by Bonnie Kime Scott Matriarchy Cocksure Women and Hensure Men 11 Mina Loy Introduced by Carolyn Burke Gertrude Stein Aphorisms on Futurism The Ineffectual Marriage JoyceOtilde;s Ulysses BrancusiOtilde;s Golden Bird 12 Rose Macaulay Introduced by Susan M. Squier Afternoon Out (From Non-Combatants and Others) Evening in Church (From Non-Combatants and Others) Alix, Nicholas, and West (From Non-Combatants and Others) Second Period: Smash (From Told by an Idiot) Following the Fashion Album 13 Hugh MacDiarmid Introduced by Nancy K. Gish Following Rebecca West in Edinburgh: A Monologue in the Vernacular (With Glossary) 14 Katherine Mansfield Introduced by Clare Hanson From Early Journal From Letters to John Middleton Murry The Flowering of the Self (From Journal, 1920) On Vaihinger (From Journal, 1921) Three Women Novelists (From Review of Dorothy RichardsonOtilde;s The Tunnel) Dragonflies (From Review of RichardsonOtilde;s Interim) The New Infancy (Review of May SinclairOtilde;s Mary Olivier) A Ship Comes into the Harbour (Review of Virginia WoolfOtilde;s Night and Day) A Novel without a Crisis (From Review of Vita Sackville-WestOtilde;s Heritage) 15 Charlotte Mew Introduced by Celeste M. Schenck Absence The Cenotaph 16 Marianne Moore Introduced by Marilyn L. Brownstein From the Correspondence If I Were Sixteen Today Charlotte Bronte Well Moused, Lion Archaically New Hymen 17 Ezra Pound Introduced by Ronald Bush Letter to Marianne Moore, 16 December 1918 Doggerel Section of Letter to Marianne Moore Ograve;OthersOacute; (With Margaret AndersonOtilde;s Annotation) Suffragettes 18 Jean Rhys Introduced by Coral Ann Howells Vienne Voyage in the Dark: Part IV (Original Version) Ghost Writing 19 Dorothy Richardson Introduced by Diane F. Gillespie From Ograve;In the CrankOtilde;s LibraryOacute;: In the Days of the Comet The Reality of Feminism Talent and Genius Women and the Future About Punctuation Women in the Arts Continuous Performance: The Film Gone Male Adventure for Readers Foreword to Pilgrimage Novels 20 May Sinclair Introduced by Dia