1st Edition

Women Artists and Writers Modernist (Im)Positionings

By B. J. Elliott, Jo-Ann Wallace Copyright 1994
218 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

In this beautifully illustrated and provocative study, Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace reappraise women's literary and artistic contribution to Modernism. Through comparative case studies, including Natalie Barney, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and Gertrude Stein, the authors examine the ways in which women responded to Modernism and created their artistic identity, and how their work has been... Read more
Chapter 1 Whose Modernism?; Chapter 2 Fleurs Du Mal or Second-Hand Roses; Chapter 3 Professionalism, Genre, and the Sister(S') Arts, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell; Chapter 4 The Making of Genius, Gertrude Stein, Marie Laurencin; Chapter 5 Mediating Modernism; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

Biography

Elliott, B. J.; Wallace, Jo-Ann