Maternal Modernism

Narrating New Mothers

AvElizabeth Podnieks

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-12-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:446 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:330
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031089138

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Elizabeth Podnieks is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her publications include, among others, Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart and Anaïs Nin; the critical edition Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman; and the edited collection Mediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: The “persistent rebels” of Maternal Modernism.- Chapter 2: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New Motherhoods.- Chapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: “the terra incognita of herself”.- Chapter 4: “The ‘momentousness’ of motherhood”: Maternal Ideologies, Discourses, and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist Review.- Chapter 5: “The Title Role of ‘Mother’”: Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay Magazine.- Chapter 6: “Freedom and childbearing”: Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in NewWoman Autobiographies of the Interwar Era.- Chapter 7: “A mother, a wife, a worker and a wonder-woman”: Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta’s London Narratives.- Chapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century.