1st Edition
Mothering Modernity Feminism, Modernism, and the Maternal Muse
By Marylu Hill
Copyright 1999
252 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study examines the transformative relationship between Victorian mothers and their modern daughters in the works of six early British modernists (E. M. Forster, Dorothy Richardson, D.H. Lawrence, May Sinclair, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf). The emphasis upon a female hero is a significant and largely unremarked similarity in some of the most significant works of these authors. In these... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: From New Women to Modernists; Chapter 2 “Only Connect”: Mothers, Daughters, And Houses in Howards End; Chapter 3 Getting Back to the Garden: Miriam’s Journey in Pilgrimage; Chapter 4 Redeeming Modernity, Feminizing History: The Regenerative Daughter in The Rainbow; Chapter 5 Honorable Schoolboys, or the New Woman Revisited: Mary Olivier and The Well of Loneliness; Chapter 6 The Mother Lost and Regained: The Voyage Out and To The Lighthouse; Chapter 7 Morphing Mothers and Moderns: The Synchronicity of Orlando;
Biography
Marylu Hill
