Nancy Cunard

Jane Marcus, one of the most insightful critics of modernism, was a Distinguished Professor of English at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A pioneering feminist literary scholar, she specialized in women writers of the modernist era, changing the way we read the work of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Nancy Cunard, among others, by focusing on the social and political context and implications of their writing. She published extensively in her field, including such foundational titles as Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy (1987); Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman (1988); and Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race (2004). As an educator, her seminars on literary modernism, “the other” World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and Virginia Woolf for the 21st Century, were highly regarded and generative, as she inspired succeeding generations of young scholars and activists to mine the archives in order to adjust and correct the public record. Jean Mills is a feminist scholar and literary critic specializing in Peace Studies, Virginia Woolf, intellectual history, feminist theory, and literary modernism. She is the author of Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (2014), as well as essays on Gertrude Stein, Hope Mirrlees, Jane Ellen Harrison, and Virginia Woolf, and the intersections of gender, race, and class. She is an Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Modernist Studies, dividing her time between New York City and Accord, New York. She is currently at work on a collection of essays Literary Approaches to Peace and a full length study 1924: A Year in the Life of Virginia Woolf.

• 1. Outlaws: The Making of the Woman Poet as a Perfect Stranger2. Between Men: Eliot, Pound and Fresca3. The Rites of Spring: Poetry, War and Primitivism4. Girlfriends, Boyfriends and Bright Young Things5. Green Hat, White Looks: Putting Down the White Woman’s Burden6. Closet Autobiography: Fabricating a Father7. White Nympholepsy: Manet, Moore and the Modern8. Intellectual Nomads: Norman Douglas and the Dream of the Desert9. The Negro Anthology and the Translation of Africa10. The White Negress: Race, Fetishism and Violence11. Writers Take Sides: The Spanish Civil War and After12. Race on the Wire13. Legacies of a Left Intellectual

‘As she did for Woolf, Marcus re-radicalizes Cunard and unveils her as the force that she was. In the process, Marcus also channels her own force and power into the work. Perfect Stranger reverberates with Marcus’s signature voice: bold, uncompromising, fierce, unflinching, and brilliant.’ J. Ashley Foster, Virginia Woolf Miscellany