The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers

Womenplayedacentralroleinliterarymodernism,theorizing,debating,writing,andpublishingthecriticalandimaginativeworkthatresultedinanewliterarycultureduringtheearlytwentiethcentury.Thisvolumeprovidesathoroughoverviewofthemaingenres,theimportantissues,andthekeyfiguresinwomen'swritingduringtheyears1890–1945.TheessaystreattheworkofWoolf,Stein,Cather,H.D.Barnes,Hurston,andmanyothersindetail;theyalsoexplorewomen'ssalons,littlemagazines,activism,photography,filmcriticism,anddance.WrittenespeciallyforthisCompanion,theselivelyessaysintroducestudentsandscholarstothevibrantfieldofwomen'smodernism.·Introducesreaderstowomen'sliteraturefromthemodernistperiod,includingworksbyWoolfandStein·Offersatransnationalaccountofwomen'smodernismbyincludingwritersfrompostcolonialnations·Coversawiderangeofsubjectareasbyincludingmanyoftheimportantthematicaspectsofwomen'swriting