The Single Woman Modernity and Literary Culture Women’s Fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s 1st Edition by Emma Sterry 3319408293 9783319408293

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ISBN-10 :  3319408293 

ISBN-13 :  9783319408293

Author:  Emma Sterry 

This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres. In the modern era, the single woman was both celebrated and derided for refusing to conform to societal expectations regarding femininity and sexuality. The different versions of single women presented in cultural narratives of this period—including the old maid, odd woman, New Woman, spinster, and flapper—were all sexually suspicious. The single woman, however, was really an amorphous figure who defied straightforward categorization. Emma Sterry explores depictions of such single women in transatlantic women’s fiction of the 1920s to 1940s. Including a diverse selection of renowned and forgotten writers, such as Djuna Barnes, Rosamond Lehmann, Ngaio Marsh, and Eliot Bliss, this book argues that the single woman embodies the tensions between tradition and progress in both middlebrow and modernist literary culture.

The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture: Women’s Fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s 1st Table of contents:

1 The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture: An Introduction
The Single Woman
Modernity, Modernism, and the Middlebrow
Women’s Writing and Literary Culture from the 1920s to the 1940s
Structure of the Study
Notes
2 The Single Woman in Context: Modernity, Femininity, Sexuality
Women’s Changing Lives in Modernity
The Impact of Modernity on Cultural Narratives About Femininity and Sexuality
The Typical Guises of the Modern Single Woman
The Less Obvious Guises of the Single Woman
Notes
3 The Single Woman, the City, and the Country
The Evolving City and Country in Modernity
Landscape and Literary Culture
Exploring Urban and Rural Landscapes: Locating the Single Woman in Women’s Fiction of the 1920s to
Notes
4 The Single Woman, Bohemianism, and Domesticity
Rethinking Bohemianism and Domesticity in Modernity
Bohemianism, Domesticity, and Literary Culture
Negotiating Domestic Scripts and Bohemian Sensibilities in Women’s Fiction of the 1920s to the 194
Notes
5 The Single Woman, and the Public and the Private
The Public and the Private in Modernity
The Public and the Private in Literary Culture
Navigating Public and Private Worlds: The Single Woman’s Search for Subjectivity
Notes
6 Afterword: Legacies
Notes
Bibliography

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