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Anne Cunningham
Bio: Anne Cunningham is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Shadow (psychology) & Modernism (music). The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 10 citations.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that failure as a productive form of critique is linked to a feminist and anticolonialist project Focusing on Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark and After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, and argue that Rhys protagonists' failure to successfully enact prescribed gender roles is a feminist response, one articulated through a negative feminism rather than a conventional liberal feminism.
Abstract: This essay locates failure as a productive form of critique, linked to a feminist and anticolonialist project Focusing on Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and After Leaving Mr Mackenzie , I argue that Rhys’s protagonists’ failure to successfully enact prescribed gender roles is a feminist response, one articulated through a negative feminism rather than a conventional liberal feminism Using Jack Halberstam’s notion of shadow feminism and Sianne Ngai’s noncathartic emotions, I show how Rhys exposes the need for an alternate model of white female respectability through her narratives of failure
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23 Apr 2009
TL;DR: A brief review of British and Irish Libel Law can be found in this article, along with a review of the Modernist Roman a clef and a select bibliography of the modernist Roman clef.
Abstract: Series Editors' Foreword Acknowledgments CHAPTER I Introduction: Fact, Fiction, Pleasure CHAPTER II True Fictions and False Histories: The Secret Rise of the Roman a clef CHAPTER III Open Secrets and Hidden Truths: Wilde and Freud CHAPTER IV Libel: Policing the Laws of Fiction APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IV A Brief Digest of British and Irish Libel Law CHAPTER V The Novel at the Bar: Joyce, Lewis, and Libel CHAPTER VI The Coterie as Commodity: Huxley, Lawrence, Rhys and the Business of Revenge APPENDIX A Select Bibliography of the Modernist Roman a Clef
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07 Oct 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a group of novels dealing with Indo-British interracial marriage, written at the turn of the 20th century, and examine the differences of perspective on British rule evident in male and female writing on India.
Abstract: My thesis focuses on a group of novels dealing with Indo-British interracial marriage, written at the turn of the 20th century. The novels belong to the large corpus of popular literature produced at this time about India by male and female Anglo-Indian writers whose purpose in writing was not only entertainment but also, importantly, instruction.¹ This literature has been neglected by the literary critics but repays close attention for it is a valuable archive for the study of female perspectives on British rule in India. There has been work by historians on Anglo-Indian women recently but the womens’ own fictional writing has been largely neglected. Using a historical materialist approach, one of my aims in this study is also to examine the differences of perspective on British rule evident in male and female writing on India.
The narrative trajectory is invariably the same: an ignorant British protagonist marries an Indian with whom s/he sets up home, prompted by desires which are gendered. The depiction of intimacy, I argue, is intended to illuminate the hidden space of Indian life (the home) so that marital and domestic practices which were considered to degrade Indian women may be exposed to the British reader. The link made by the British between the treatment of women and the fitness of Indian men for self-rule is important here. The representation of the Indian home as a hidden space about which the British knew very little but imagined much, offers a reading of the anxiety felt by the British about the limits of their control in India, both over the Indians and over themselves.
¹These writers include Alice Perrin, Maud Diver, Fanny Penny, E.W. Savi, Victoria Cross and Pamela Wynne; several male Anglo-Indian writers and non-Anglo-Indians are included.
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TL;DR: The modernist city is commonly thought of as a city of exteriors; we envision the "spaces of modernity" as sites of industry or leisure, and apply the very notion of the "urban" plan as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The modernist city is commonly thought of as a city of exteriors; we envision the ‘spaces of modernity’ as sites of industry or leisure, and apply the very notion of the ‘urban’—urban plann...
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TL;DR: The Net of Circumstance as mentioned in this paper is a realist New Woman protest novel geared to participate in critical cultural debates about the gendered practices of marriage and the inadequacies of American manhood.
Abstract: By actively contesting and challenging dominant definitions of gender and their prescribed social and familial roles, Stella Miles Franklin’s ‘lost’ novel, The Net of Circumstance, announces itself as a realist New Woman protest novel geared to participate in critical cultural debates about the gendered practices of marriage and the inadequacies of American manhood. The author makes the case for this novel as a historically contingent text that attends to the material specificities of Franklin’s negotiation with both the literary/aesthetic and socio-economic/interpersonal issues of her time. She argues for its representation of continuities between late-Victorian and modernist literary genres that include the containment of unfamiliar stories about female empowerment and the self-serving politics of pro-feminist male allies in the familiar space of courtship and marriage.
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TL;DR: In her unfinished autobiography, Smile Please (1979), Jean Rhys describes her young adulthood in pre-World War I London as discussed by the authors, set adrift from the support of family, Rhys recounts the lovers and friends.
Abstract: In her unfinished autobiography, Smile Please (1979), Jean Rhys describes her young adulthood in pre-World War I London. Set adrift from the support of family, Rhys recounts the lovers and friends ...
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