Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Women, Travel, and the Body
	Women and Modernism
	Women and Travel: Mobile Identities
	A Woman’s Travel Book
	Travel Estrangement: The Female Body and the Other
	Feminist Geographies / Feminist Phenomenology
	Excursions into Modernism
1 Increasingly Imaginative Geographies: Excursions into Otherness, Fantasy, and Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing
	Gender, Genre, and Travel
	Twentieth-Century Imaginations
	\"I was a white woman once\": Curious Constructions of Self and Other in Nettie Fowler Dietz’s A White Woman in a Black Man’s Country
	The Fantasy of the Other: Grace Thompson Seton’s Kaleidoscopic \"excursion into the fourth dimension\" in A Woman Tenderfoot in Egypt
	Moving into Modernism: Vita Sackville-West\'s Passenger to Teheran
	Postscript: Intimate Relations Between Travel Writing and Fiction: Woolf and Sackville-West
2 Narratives of Passing: Transdermal Excursions in Larsen, Rhys, and Hall
	Nella Larsen\'s Novels of Movement and Stasis: Quicksand and Passing
	\"A pretty useful mask that white one\": Jean Rhys’s Representation of the \"Voyage\" of Racial Identity
	Finding Miss Ogilvy: Following Radclyffe Hall\'s \"excursion into the realms of the fantastic\"
	Passing and Primitivism
3 Modernist Fever: The \"Undiscovered Countries\" of Illness
	Illness and Geographic Space
	Moving Beyond the Victorian Novel into \"unknown places\": Woolf’s The Voyage Out
	\"I\'m not here I\'m there\": Excursions into Illness in Voyage in the Dark
	\"the fearless explorer (my mind was)\": H.D .\'s Hermione in the Hinterland of Illness
4 \"I am going on and on to the end of myself where something else begins\": Travel, Pregnancy, and Modernism
	Pregnancy, Personal Geographies, and Mobility
	Rethinking the Experience of Pregnancy: Katherine Mansfield’s Journeys to Germany, France, and \"Rome\"
	When a World Tour is Not Enough, the Language of the Body Remains: The Creation of Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
	Evelyn Scott’s Escapade, the Pregnant Body, and the Modernist Travel Narrative
5 \"It carried her out of the house, out of the world\": Modernist Women Writers and the Piano
	The Piano and the Journey
	\"Poured straight into music\": the Piano, the Body, and the Woolfian Voyage
	A Pilgrimage through Music: Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed Roofs
	Rebecca West, the Piano, and the Travel \"Fantasy\"
	Coda: Black and White and Read All Over: Philippa Duke Schuyler\'s Travels with the Piano
Conclusion: Final Excursions: Rebecca West\'s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Bibliography
Index