Expert modernists, matricide, and modern culture :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Woolf, Forster, Joyce /
First Statement of Responsibility
Lois Cucullu.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 233 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-218) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Through an original reading of the importance of women to modernism, this study shows what modernism begins to look like once we consider Virginia Woolf exemplary instead of the female exception to modernist rule. Linking the leading innovators of modernism - Woolf, Forster, Joyce - to the cult of the modern expert, Cucullu shows how the three expert practitioners used technical innovations in the novel to replace reigning Victorian beliefs about marriage, procreation and the family. Modernists of whatever gender stripe gained in cultural authority by denigrating and replacing the moral authority of 'woman', as defined by Victorian society, with their own expert narratives more synchronous with a mobile and worldly aggregate. In the process, modernist innovations became the basis of a new expert authority and the measure of a modern cultural class, as cultural reproduction assumed the centrality once accorded biological reproduction and the bourgeois family."--Jacket.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Forster, E. M., (Edward Morgan),1879-1970-- Characters-- Women.
Joyce, James,1882-1941-- Characters-- Women.
Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Characters-- Women.
Forster, E. M., (Edward Morgan),1879-1970-- Characters-- Women.
Joyce, James,1882-1941-- Characters-- Women.
Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Characters-- Women.
Forster, E. M., (Edward Morgan),1879-1970-- Personnages-- Femmes.
Joyce, James,1882-1941-- Personnages-- Femmes.
Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Personnages-- Femmes.
Forster, E. M., (Edward Morgan),1879-1970
Forster, E.M.,1879-1970.
Joyce, James,1882-1941
Joyce, James,1882-1941.
Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941
Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Families in literature.
Home in literature.
Matriarchy in literature.
Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.
Mothers in literature.
Women in literature.
Famille dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Foyer dans la littérature.
Matriarcat dans la littérature.
Mères dans la littérature.
Modernisme (Littérature)-- Grande-Bretagne.
Roman anglais-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.