Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Teaching Modernism through the Phantasmic Mother: Maternal Longing in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and Gertrude Käsebier’s Photography....Pages 21-37
Visual Pleasure and the Female Gaze: “Inter-Active” Cinema in the Film Writing of HD and Dorothy Richardson....Pages 38-49
“Things. Things. Things”: Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and the Beauty of Magazine Culture....Pages 50-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Modernism and the Politics of Poverty: Teaching Lola Ridge, Jacob Riis, and Social Justice....Pages 65-80
Editing Children of the Sun: Jessie Redmon Fauset, Little Magazines, and the Cultivation of the New Negro....Pages 81-95
Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark: Community, Race, and Empire....Pages 96-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
“War trod her low”: Recovery and Community in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Opus 7....Pages 111-128
From Alienation to Community: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Utopian Modernism....Pages 129-144
“The Look in a Dog’s Eyes”: Animals in the Dining Room in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September....Pages 145-158
The Unwritten Narrative of Modernism and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood....Pages 159-175
Woolf and …: Teaching Besidedness....Pages 176-188
Afterword: Some Notes on Radical Teaching....Pages 189-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-203