Sapphic Primitivism Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction |
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Author:
| Hackett, Robin |
ISBN: | 978-0-8135-3347-6 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2003 |
Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $37.95 |
Book Description:
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In this book, Robin Hackett examines portrayals of race, class, and sexuality in modernist texts by white women to argue for the existence of a literary device that she calls "Sapphic primitivism." The works vary widely in their form and content and include Olive Schreiner's proto-modernist exploration of New Womanhood,
The Story of an African Farm; Virginia Woolf's high modernist "play-poem,"
The Waves; Sylvia Townsend Warner's historical...
More Description In this book, Robin Hackett examines portrayals of race, class, and sexuality in modernist texts by white women to argue for the existence of a literary device that she calls "Sapphic primitivism." The works vary widely in their form and content and include Olive Schreiner's proto-modernist exploration of New Womanhood, The Story of an African Farm; Virginia Woolf's high modernist "play-poem," The Waves; Sylvia Townsend Warner's historical novel, Summer Will Show; and Willa Cather's Southern pastoral, Sapphira and the Slave Girl.