Title Ordinary matters : modernist women's literature and photography / Lorraine Sim

Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) Contents 'I am part of the dense smooth clean paving stone': the street in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage -- Extraordinary actuality: Helen Levitt's streets -- Homely things: Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf -- Mrs Brown and the face-to-face -- Dorothea Lange: On photographing the familiar -- Banalities of evil: Lee Miller's ethics of seeing war -- Coda: Margaret Monck and the labour of the everyday 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"-- Provided by publisher Shortlisted for the 2017 AUHE Prize for Literary ScholarshipOrdinary Matters is the first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography. It examines how women photographers and writers including Helen Levitt, Lee Miller, Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson envision the sphere of ordinary life in light of the social and cultural transformations of the period that shaped and often radically re-shaped it: for example, urbanism, instrumentalism, the Great Depression and war. Through a series of case studies that explore such topics as the street, domestic things, gesture and the face, Sim contends that the paradigmatic shifts that define early twentieth-century modernity not only inform modernist women's aesthetics of the everyday, but their artistic and ethical investments in that sphere. The everyday has been noted as a "keynote of the New Modernist Studies" (Todd Avery). Ordinary Matters comprises a vital contribution to recent scholarship on the topic and will be of value to scholars working in British and American modernism, multimedia modernisms, photography, twentieth-century literature, and critical and cultural histories of the everyday Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record 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 -- Women authors -- History and criticism Gender studies: women. Literary studies: from c 1900. Literary studies: general. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature English literature -- Women authors Literature and photography Visual perception in literature Women photographers Great Britain United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501314322 1501314327 9781501314339 1501314335 1501314319 9781501314315

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