Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945

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Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroduction Ann L. Ardis Part I Negotiating the LIterary MarketplaceWriting a Public Self: Alice Meynell's Unstable Equilibrium Talia SchafferTowards a New Colored Consciousness: Biracial Identity on Pauline Hopkins's Fiction Leslie W. LewisThe Authority of Experience: Jane Adams and Hull-House Francesca SawayaThis Other Eden: Homoeroticism and the Great War in the Early Poetry of H.D. and Radclyffe Hall Claire BuckThe Heir Apparent: Opal Whiteley and the as Child in America Deborah Garfield Part II Outside the MetropolisIn-Between Modernity: Toru Dutt (1856-1877) from a Postcolonial Perspective Alpana SharmaNew Negro Modernity: Worldliness and Interiority in the Novels of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins Carla L. PetersonOlive Schreiner, South Africa, and the Costs of Modernity Carolyn BurdettTropical Ovaries: Gynecological Degeneration and Lady Arabella's Female Difficultiesin Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm Piya Pal-LapinskiTwo Talks with Khun Fa Lynn Thiesmeyer Part III The Shifting Terrian of Public LifeStage Businessas Citizenship: Ida B. Wells at the World's Columbian Exposition James C. DavisPhenomena in Flux: The Aesthetics and Politics of Traveling in Modernity Ana Parejo VadilloThe New Woman's Appetite for Riotous Living: Rebecca West, Modernist Feminism, and the Everyday Barbara GreenDjuna Barnes Makes a Specialty of Crime: Violence and the Visual in Her Early Journalism Katherine BiersIn Pursuit of an Erogamic Life: Marie Stopes and the Culture of Married Love Lucy BurkeShift Work: Observing Women Observing, 1937-1945 Julian YatesAfterword Rita Felski Notes on Contributors Index