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Books on Gender and Modernism

 

Gender in Modernism: New Contexts, Complex Intersections

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007

 

The Gender of Modernism, General Editor

The Gender of Modernism, General Editor
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990

The Gender of Modernism is a collaborative project involving 18 contributing editors who present new feminist introductions and difficult-to-access primary works by 26 modernists, most of them neglected women writers.

Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1: The Women of 1928

Refiguring Modernism, Volume 1: The Women of 1928
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995

This is the first volume of a two-volume revisionary study of modernism centered on the writing of Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Djuna Barnes. Volume 1 investigates the professional attachments and strategies that led to the flourishing of three women of modernism around 1928.

Refiguring Modernism, Volume 2: Postmodern Readings of Woolf

Refiguring Modernism, Volume 2: Postmodern Readings of Woolf
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995

The second volume considers how post-modern questions can be addressed in the complex fiction of these three writers.

Selected Letters of Rebecca West

Selected Letters of Rebecca West
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000

Selected Letters of Rebecca West enters the full range of interests, literary and political views, and tumultuous life experiences of this outspoken novelist, journalist, and critic. Included are a scholarly introduction, chronology, and notes.

Selected Letters of Rebecca West

Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries: Selected Papers from the Ninth Conference on Virginia Woolf, Co-Edited with Ann Ardis
New York: Pace University Press, 2000

This book is taken from the 1999 Virginia Woolf Conference and a contains critical introduction and sections on Scanning the Centuries, Remote Inscriptions, New Applications of Queer Theory, Trauma and Wellness, Life and Death Writing, Textual Re-Takes, Pressing the Public Sphere, Moving Images, and Disciplinary Travels.

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Books on James Joyce and Ireland
Joyce and Feminism

Joyce and Feminism
Bloomington: Indiana University Press & London: Harvester Press, 1984

Joyce and Feminism offers feminist historical and biographical backgrounds for Joyce, and analysis of three of Joyce's key female characters: Emma Cleary from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Molly Boom from Ulysses, and Issy from Finnegans Wake.

James Joyce

James Joyce
Harvester Feminist Readings Series London: Harvester Press, 1987

James Joyce demonstrates how Joyce can be studied from four different feminist approaches. It addresses problems of Joyce's male-centered literary and historical sources, and his use of masculine discourse, myth, and feminine language. Scott serves on the Board of Directors of the James Joyce Foundation.

New Alliances in Joyce Studies: "Whan it's Aped to Foul a Delfian,"
Editor Newark: University of Deleware Press, 1988

1985 Joyce Symposium proceedings, with critical introduction and selections on Recent Theory, Forms in Fiction, Analogies from Art, Feminist Revisions, Joyce and Other Women Writers, Influences and Resonances, and Textual Workshops.

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Selected Articles Focused on Feminist Interpretations


"Unresolved Pedagagy? Teaching Rebecca West. Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches. Ed. Bernard Schweizer. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006. 245-257.
.Modernism and Gender.. Blackwell Companion to Modernism. Ed. David Bradshaw and Kevin Dettmar. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 535-541.
.Introduction. and .Notes.. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Orlando, New York and London: Harcourt Press, new teaching editions, 2005.
.Rebecca West.. Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950 . Ed. Faye Hammill. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 275-276.
.Virginia Woolf.. Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950. 286-287 .Feminist Theory and Criticism 2: Anglo-American Feminisms.. In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory, ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 307-311. (revision of 1994 article)
.Andrews , Dame Cicily Isabel [Rebecca West] (1892-1983).. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31819
.Amy Lowell.s Letters in the Network of Modernism.. In Amy Lowell: A Collection of Essays. Ed. Adrienne Munich and Melissa Bradshaw. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 136-53.
.Feminist Relocations of Gender and Modernism: A Review Essay.. NWSA Journal 15.3 (Fall 2003): 165-78..Beyond (?) Feminist Recuperative Study.. In Women in Literary History: .For there she was.. Ed. Kathleen Binhammer and Jeanne Wood. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 220-3.

.Subversive Mechanics of Woolf.s Gramophone in Between the Acts.. Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Ed. Pamela Caughie. New York: Garland, 2000. 97-114.

"Djuna Barnes's Migratory Modernism." In American Modernism Across the Arts. Ed. Jay Bochner and Justin D. Edwards. Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. 218-233.

"'O Rocks!': Wandering in Gender at the Center of Ulysses." In Ulysses.En-Gendered Perspectives, ed. Kimberly Devlin and Marilyn Reizbaum. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1999. 136-49.

"'The Young Girl,' Jane Heap, and Trials of Gender in Ulysses." In Joycean Cultures/ Culturing Joyce, ed. Vincent J. Cheng, Kimberly J. Devlin, and Margot Norris. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998. 78-94.

"Rebecca West's Traversals of Yugoslavia: Essentialism Nationalism, Fascism and Gender." In Women's Studies in Transition. Ed. Kate Conway-Turner et. al. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998, 320-29.

"Intimacies Engendered in Conrad's "The Secret Sharer." The Secret Sharer: Case Studies, ed. Dan Schwarz. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

"Feminist Theory and Criticism 2: Anglo-American Feminisms." In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory, ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. 1994. 237-241.

"A Joyce of One's Own." Rereading Modernism: New Directions in Feminist Criticism. Ed. Lisa Rado. New York: Garland P, 1994. 209-230.

"H.D., Hilda Doolittle." In The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the US. Ed. Cathy Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. NY: Oxford UP, 1994. 379-81.

"Feminist Approaches to Teaching Ulysses." In Approaches to Teaching Joyce's Ulysses, ed. Irwin R. Steinburg and Kathleen McCormick. New York: LA, 1993. 49-58.

"Barnes Being 'Beast Familiar': Representation on the Margins of Modernism." Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.3 (1993): 41-57.

".The Look on the Throat of a Stricken Amimal': Joyce as Met by Djuna Barnes." Joyce Studies II (1991). 153-176.

"Refiguring the Binary, Breaking the Cycle: Rebecca West as Feminist Modernist." Twentieth Century Literature 37.2 (1991): 169-191.

"Uncle Wells on Women." In Wells Under Revision, ed. Patrick Parrinder and Christopher Rolfe. Susquehannah UP, 1990. 108-20.

"Hanna and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington: Reformers in the Company of Joyce." In Joyce and his Contemporaries, ed. Diana Ben-Merre and Maureen Murphy. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. 77-85.

"Feminist Theory and Women in Irish Writing." In The Uses of the Past: Essays in Irish Culture, ed. Robert Garrett and Audrey Eyler. Newark: U of Delaware P 1988. 55-63.

"Synge's Language of Women." In A Companion to Synge Studies, ed. E. A. Kopper. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. 173-189.

"`The Word Split its Husk': Woolf's Double Vision of Modernist Language." Modern Fiction Studies. 32.3 (1988): 371-385.

"The Strange Necessity of Rebecca West." Women Reading Women's Writing, ed. Sue Roe. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1987. 264-86.

"Emma Clery in Stephen Hero: A Young Woman Walking Proudly through the Decayed City." Women in Joyce, ed. Suzette Henke and Elaine Unkeless. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1982. 57-81.

"The Woman in the Black Straw Hat: A Transitional Priestess in Stephen Hero." James Joyce Quarterly, 16 (Summer 1979): 407-416.

"Mary Lavin and the Life of the Mind." Irish University Review 9.2 (1979): 262-278.

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