Overview
- Focuses particularly on American women writers and the city of New York
- Studies the politics and spatiality of gender in the city
- Highlights the various sites where the poetry of modernist women intersects with technological inventions for amusement
Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)
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About this book
Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject. Focusing on American women writers and particularly on the city of New York, the book argues that the poetry of modernist women that engages with, examines or critiques the new leisure technologies of their era is fundamentally changed by the encounter with that technology. The chapters in the book focus on shopping, advertising, dance, film, radio and phonography, on city spaces such as Coney Island, Greenwich Village and Harlem, and on poetry that embraces the linguistic and formal innovations of modernism whilst paying close attention to the embodied politics of gender. The technologized city, and the leisure cultures and media forms emerging from it, enabled modernist women writers to re-imagine forms of lyric embodiment, inspired by the impact of technology on modern ideas of selfhoodand subjectivity.
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Alex Goody is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies
Book Subtitle: Machine Amusements
Authors: Alex Goody
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95961-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature America, Inc. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95960-0Published: 30 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95963-1Published: 30 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95961-7Published: 29 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 312
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Contemporary Literature