Communal Modernisms

1. Introduction: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
Laurel Harris, Emily M. Hinnov, Lauren M. Rosenblum

Part I. The Influence of Photography and Film on Literary Communal Modernisms

2. Teaching Modernism through the Phantasmic Mother: Maternal Longing in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and Gertrude Käsebier’s Photography
Emily M. Hinnov

3. Visual Pleasure and the Female Gaze: “Inter-Active” Cinema in the Film Writing of HD and Dorothy Richardson
Laurel Harris

4. “Things. Things. Things”: Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and the Beauty of Magazine Culture
Lauren M. Rosenblum

Part II. The Politics of Communal Modernisms

5. Modernism and the Politics of Poverty: Teaching Lola Ridge, Jacob Riis, and Social Justice
Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega

6. Editing Children of the Sun: Jessie Redmon Fauset, Little Magazines, and the Cultivation of the New Negro
Emily Wojcik

7. Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark: Community, Race, and Empire
Judy Suh

Part III. Reinvention within Communal Modernisms

8. “War trod her low”: Recovery and Community in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Opus 7
Rita Kondrath

9. From Alienation to Community: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Utopian Modernism
Noreen O’Connor

10. “The Look in a Dog’s Eyes”: Animals in the Dining Room in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September
Vicki Tromanhauser

11. The Unwritten Narrative of Modernism and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
Bonnie Roos

12. Woolf and …: Teaching Besidedness
Robin Hackett

13. Afterword: Some Notes on Radical Teaching
Jane Marcus

Keywords: Literature, Literary History, Fiction, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Language Teaching