Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
From the Modernist Annex: American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries
Karin Roffman
€ 55.12
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for From the Modernist Annex: American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries
Hardcover. Offers fresh and critically significant ways of understanding the women writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries and their texts, the distribution of knowledge, and the complicated place of women in modernist institutions. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman's close readings of four modernist writers - Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Marianne Moore, and Ruth Benedict - she studied that modernist women writers were simultaneously critical of and shaped by these institutions. ""From the Modernist Annex"" offers new and critically significant ways of understanding these writers and their texts, the distribution of knowledge, and the complicated place ... Read more
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman's close readings of four modernist writers - Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Marianne Moore, and Ruth Benedict - she studied that modernist women writers were simultaneously critical of and shaped by these institutions. ""From the Modernist Annex"" offers new and critically significant ways of understanding these writers and their texts, the distribution of knowledge, and the complicated place ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817316983
SKU
V9780817316983
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Karin Roffman
Karin Roffman is Assistant Professor of English at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Reviews for From the Modernist Annex: American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries
"This book has, at its heart, a smart and illuminating thesis about women modernists' complex engagement with and analyses of various modern cultural and educational institutions." - Francesca Sawaya, associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 "From the Modernist Annex is an original and ... Read more