Ordinary matters : modernist women's literature and photography /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sim, Lorraine, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. ©2016
Description:	xiv, 228 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English literature -- Great Britain -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Literature and photography. Women photographers -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Women photographers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Visual perception in literature. English literature. English literature -- Women authors. Literature and photography. Visual perception in literature. Women photographers. Great Britain. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10927496

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9781501314308 1501314300 9781501314322
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography that demonstrates how their alternative vision of the everyday extends, and often complicates, that of their male contemporaries as well as contemporary everyday life theory"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
List of figures
Introduction: Ordinary matters, modernity and women's modernism
1. 'I am part of the dense smooth clean paving stone': The street in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
2. Extraordinary actuality: Helen Levitt's streets
3. Homely things: Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf
4. Mrs Brown and the face-to-face
5. Dorothea Lange: On photographing the familiar
6. Banalities of evil: Lee Miller's ethics of seeing war
Coda: Margaret Monck and the labour of the everyday
Bibliography
Index

Similar Items