Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Beginnings 1. (Dys)functional Families 2. Edwardian Uncles 3. Stretching the Scope of Suffrage 4. Midwives of Modernism Part Two: The Men of 1914 5. Ezra Pound: Plunging Headlong into Female Chaos 6. Wyndham Lewis: Above the Line of Messy Femininity 7. T.S. Eliot: Playing Possum 8. James Joyce: Halting Female Pens with Ulysses 9. Lawrence, Forster, and Bloomsbury: Male Modernist Others Part Three: The Women of 1928 10. Arranging Marriages, Partners, and Spaces 11. Becoming Professionals 12. Rallying round The Well of Loneliness Notes Bibliography Index

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A new vision of modernism through the oWomen of 1928ONVirginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Djuna Barnes.

About the Author

BONNIE KIME SCOTT is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Joyce and Feminism, James Joyce, and New Alliances in Joyce Studies; she is the editor of The Gender of Modernism. She is editing the letters of Rebecca West.

Reviews

o... an invaluable aid to the reconfiguration of literary modernism and of the history of the fiction of the first three decades of the twentieth century.O NNovel o... her readings of texts are quite smart and eminently readable.O NTulsa Studies in WomenOs Literature o... a challenging and discerning study of the modernist period.O NJames Joyce Broadsheet (note: review of volume 1 only) o... highly important and beautifully written, constructing a contextually rich cultural history of Anglo-American modernism. It wears its meticulous erudition lightly, synthesizing an enormous amount of research, much of it original archival work.O NSigns oThrough her thoughtful exploration of the lives and work of these three female modernists, Scott shapes a new feminist literary history that successfully reconfigures modernism.O NWoolf Studies Annual