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Nancy Cunard

Perfect Stranger

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvJane Marcus,Jean Mills

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Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger reshapes our understanding of a woman, whose role in key historical, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century was either dismissed and attacked, or undervalued. Here, Jane Marcus, who was one of the most insightful critics of modernism and a pioneering feminist scholar, is unafraid and unapologetic in addressing and contesting Nancy Cunard’s reputation and reception as a spoiled heiress and “sexually dangerous New Woman.” Instead, with her characteristic provocative and energetic writing style, Marcus insists we reconsider issues of gender, race, and class in relation to the accusations, stereotypes, and scandal, which have dominated, and continue to dominate, our perception of Cunard in the public record. In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger brings its subject into the 21st century, offering a bold and innovative portrait of a woman we all thought we knew.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-10
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieClemson University Press w/ LUP
Antal sidor348
FörlagClemson University Digital Press
ISBN9781949979299

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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