Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers: Renée Erdős, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Minka Czóbel, Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi, Anna Lesznai

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword: A Writer in Search of Her Foremothers
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Translator’s Note
Chapter 1 A Tradition of One’s Own
	1 A Tradition of Forgetting
	2 Canons and Sinking Streams
	3 Women’s Literature
	4 My Own Say
	5 From Room to Room, All the Way to My Own Room
	6 A Portrait Gallery on the Museum’s Postcard
Chapter 2 Between Love and the Canon: Renée Erdős (1879–1956)
	1 Author’s House: Closed
	2 Private Life – Literary Life
	3 A Woman Writer at the Journal Future
	4 The Woman Writer’s Chances
	5 Voices in the Novels
	6 Fracture
	7 Success in Her Time
	8 Contemporary Reviews
	9 The Label of Erotic Lady Author
	10 Female Voice, Female Verse
		10.1 Do Leave Off, I Came to You …, The Pearls I Wear around My Neck
	11 The Author’s House Is Open
Chapter 3 In the Canon with Secrets: Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922–1991) and Women’s Literary Tradition
	1 The Weeping Poetess
	2 Secret Poems and the Writing of Literary History
	3 The Female Poet and Objective Poetry
	4 Woman’s Room, Woman’s Landscape, Woman’s Body
		4.1 In a Strange Room …, Impersonal, Female Landscape, Love
	5 Self-Liquidation and Recognition
	6 A Woman’s Role
		6.1 American Diary
	7 Statue and Mask
		7.1 Statues i Carried i, ii, The Leaving
	8 Women’s Poetic Tradition
	9 Entering the Room
	10 Epilogue
Chapter 4 No Canon for Otherness – The Witch: Minka Czóbel (1855–1947)
	1 The Enigmatic Monographer
	2 The Mysterious Bob
	3 Detective Work
	4 Painting a Portrait
	5 Writing between the Lines
	6 Ugly, Ugly, Not Fit for the Canon
	7 Contemporary Views of Minka Czóbel
	8 The Feminist Witch
		8.1 Donna Juanna
	9 The Otherness of the Witch
		9.1 Witch Songs, Blizzard, People Are Sleeping, The Voice of the Forest iii
	10 Loss of Control
		10.1 The Moving Shore
	11 Perversion, Horror, Revenge, Web
		11.1 Two Golden Hairs, Miter’s Bride, Spiders’ Webs
	12 Boundaries, Mirrors
		12.1 The Wind, a Blue Parasol
	13 Reading the Witch
Chapter 5 Mirror, Body, Trauma – A Writer’s Wife at the Edge of the Canon: Ilona Harmos Kosztolányi (1885–1967)
	1 To Big Girls about Little Girls
		1.1 Writers’ Wives – Portraits of Contemporaries
	2 Widow, Pigeonholed: the Writer’s Wife
	3 Female Reading
	4 Body
		4.1 Born with a Caul
	5 Mirror
		5.1 Madame Dezső Kosztolányi: Dezső Kosztolányi
	6 Women’s Holocaust Memoirs
		6.1 In Red-Hot Shoes
	7 Trauma: Persecutors and Persecuted
	8 Setting the Stage for Death
	9 Connections: Ilona Harmos, Minka Czóbel, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ágnes Nemes Nagy
	10 The Writing Woman
	11 Sitting Down at the Writing Desk
Chapter 6 Museum, Cult, Memory – Locked in the Canon: Anna Lesznai (1885–1966)
	1 Memory’s Volunteers
	2 The Well-Known Woman Writer
	3 Museum, Cult, Memory
	4 Dusting Off a Novel
	5 Belatedness and Renewal
	6 Threads and Patterns
	7 Female Figures
	8 A Father’s Blessing
	9 The Novel that Remembers
	10 Nižný Hrušov – Memory’s Touch
Appendix 1 List of Poems and Their Translators
Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Names and Places