Synopses & Reviews
Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender. Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender. "Exceptionally lucid."Review of English Studies
Synopsis
Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender.
Synopsis
Why did turn-of-the-century England produce the kind of writing it did? That deceptively simple question is at the heart of Lyn Pykett's enquiry. She re-examines the beginning of the age of modernism, exploring its origins in nineteenth-century discourses: particularly discourses about women and gender.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-153) and index.
Table of Contents
Introductory: Writing in history
Rethinking modernism
Gender, degeneration, renovation: Some contexts of the modern (The turn-of the-century gender crisis
degeneration
renovation)
Writing and gender at the turn of the century (Fiction and the feminine
Writing masculine
The new feminine realism)
Dorothy Richardson: Thinking the feminine
Virginia Woolf: Rethinking realism, remaking fiction
Male novelists and the engendering of modern fiction
D. H. Lawrence: Gender-bending and sex wars
Notes
Appendix
Index.