Modernist Literary Collaborations between Women and Men
- Author: Russell McDonald, Georgian Court University, New Jersey
- Date Published: October 2022
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316512654
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Major figures including W. B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf viewed 'cross-sex' collaboration as a valuable, and often subversive, strategy for bringing women and men's differing perspectives into productive dialogue while harnessing the creative potential of gendered discord. This study is the first to acknowledge collaboration between women and men as an important part of the modernist effort to 'make it new.' Drawing on current methods from textual scholarship to read modernist texts as material, socially constructed products of multiple hands, the study argues that cross-sex collaboration involved writers working not just with each other, but also with publishers and illustrators. By documenting and tracing the contours of their desire for cross-sex collaboration, we gain a new understanding of the modernists' thinking about sex and gender relations, as well as three related topics of great interest to them: marriage, androgyny, and genius.
Read more- Documents examples of the pervasive desire for collaboration between women and men in the modernist period, revealing to readers an important, largely overlooked dimension of the modernist effort
- Uses current methods from textual scholarship to examine instances of writers working not only with each other but also with publishers and illustrators, offering readers broadened understanding of what literary collaboration entails
- Describes the modernists' tendency to use conflict between the sexes as a creative catalyst and infuse the texts they made together with evidence of that conflict, showing readers how deeply imbued gender conflict was in the foundations of modernism itself
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'The tension between collective creativity and individual genius is again under inspection, this time by Russell McDonald in Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Men and Women … Conflict underpins much of the work described in the book. The author calls it a 'discord aesthetic' and goes so far as to suggest that a distinctive modernist style was the direct result of productive tensions and inequalities between men and women.' Jade French, Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'… the range of examples that McDonald's book offers, along with the historical and theoretical chapters, … can inspire readers to discover and study other collaborations. The book is also a model for its lucid prose and for how it goes beyond textual matters to critical readings.' Logan Esdale, Textual Cultures
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- Date Published: October 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781316512654
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.583kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Imagining two as one: collaboration and the discourse of sex relations in early modernism
2. The discord aesthetic in D. H. Lawrence's collaborations with women
3. The fight to be affectionate: textual intimacy and the drive to animate marriage
4. The yolk and white of the one shell: modernism's androgynous textual bodies
5. Being a genius together.
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