Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness

Maren Linett teaches at Purdue University, where she specializes in modern British fiction in the broader context of Anglo-American modernism. She has published articles in The Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and Twentieth-Century Literature, and has edited a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies entitled 'Modernism's Jews/Jewish Modernisms'.

• Introduction: Imagined Jews and the shape of feminist modernism; 1. 'Strip each statement of its money motive': Jews and the ideal of disinterested art in Warner, Rhys, and Woolf; 2. Transformations of supersessionism in Woolf and Richardson; 3. Adding bathrooms, fomenting revolutions: modernity and Jewishness in Woolf and Warner; 4. The race must go on: gender, Jewishness, and racial continuity in Richardson and Barnes; 5. The 'No time region': time, trauma, and Jewishness in Barnes and Rhys; 6. Metatextual Jewishness: shaping feminist modernism; Bibliography.

'… Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness will have a significant impact on literary and cultural studies. Its innovative readings of the novels, impressive archival work, and often breathtaking connections are sure to attract a broad academic readership and to contribute to the rapidly expanding field of Jewish literary studies.' Allosemitic Modernism