Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Roffman, Karin.

Title From the modernist annex : American women writers in museums and libraries / Karin Roffman.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2010]
©2010

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index.
Contents Women and the mutual development of museums and libraries -- Museums and memory in Edith Wharton's modern novels -- Nella Larsen, librarian at 135th Street -- Accidents happen in Marianne Moore's native habitat -- Finding freedom from museums and libraries in Ruth Benedict's poetry -- Conclusion.
Summary In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman's close readings of four modernist writers--Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Marianne Moore, and Ruth Benedict--she studied the that modernist women writers were simultaneously critical of and shaped by these institutions. From the Modernist Annex offers new and critically significant ways of understanding these writers and their texts.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Larsen, Nella.
Larsen, Nella.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Larsen, Nella.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
Women authors, American.
Women authors, American.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Libraries and women -- United States -- History.
Libraries and women.
United States.
History.
Museums and women -- United States -- History.
Museums and women.
Libraries in literature.
Libraries in literature.
Museums in literature.
Museums in literature.
Libraries -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Libraries -- Social aspects.
Libraries.
Museums -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Museums -- Social aspects.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Roffman, Karin. From the modernist annex. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009036280
ISBN 9780817383961 (electronic book)
0817383964 (electronic book)
9780817316983 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0817316981 (cloth ; alkaline paper)