1st Edition
Excursions into Modernism Women Writers, Travel, and the Body
Introduction: women, travel, and the body; Increasingly imaginative geographies: excursions into otherness, fantasy, and Modernism in early 20th-century women’s travel writing; Narratives of passing: transdermal excursions in Larsen, Rhys, and Hall; Modernist fever: the ‘undiscovered countries’ of illness; ‘I am going on and on to the end of myself where something else begins’: travel, pregnancy, and Modernism; ‘It carried her out of the house, out of the world’: Modernist women writers and the piano; Conclusion: final excursions: Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Joyce E. Kelley is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, USA.
'In her groundbreaking new book Excursions Into Modernism, Joyce E. Kelley shows how travel shaped the production of women’s imaginative fiction in ways not always acknowledged in conventional genealogies of modernism. By addressing issues of race and class, and by focusing on concepts such as illness, pregnancy, and even the piano, Kelley provides a rich, thoughtful, and rigorous reevaluation of the landscape of modernism even as she extends its geography not only externally on the globe but internally. Kelley's book will prove to be indispensable not only to the field of travel studies but to the new modernist studies as well.' David Farley, St John's University, USA
