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"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 Gubar

Authors 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.

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Solving a problem
Bonne Kime Scott's introduction begins by identifying a problem in modernist studies in the last 50 years: it has been male dominated.She's not just whining when she says this -- she relates that a 900+ page volume introducing modernist authors compiled by Richard Ellman only had nine pages dedicated to female authors.I've also recently read J.I.M. Stewart's _Eight Modern Writers_ (written for the Oxford History of English Literature Series) and, of course, all eight authors are male.

So B.K. Scott seeks to address a genuine problem with this anthology, and does so very well and very professionally.She represents a feminism that is more concerned with understanding how gender is constructed in society, and how that affects both men and women, than it is concerned with lamenting oppression or bashing men.And above all, her anthology delivers its promise to present marginalized modernist writers, as well as established modernists (such as Woolf, Eliot, Pound, and Lawrence), in a new light.

Each of the 26 chapters is devoted to a single author, and introduced by a short critical essay.By covering so many authors, of course, the selections for each are lamentably short, and of course specific value judgments proceeding from specific critical paradigms tend to surface in most of the critical work-- off putting if you don't share these premises, or would like some reflection upon them. But this book still serves as an excellent introduction to a new approach to a well known subject. It is indispensable to the study of British and American modernism (yes, the selections are limited to authors writing in English). ... Read more

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With stories from such female greats as Elizabeth Gaskell and Katherine Mansfield, this collection should appeal to women and men alike, with a strong and varied selection of stories by and about women. ... Read more