| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index. |
| Contents |
Women and the mutual development of museums and libraries -- Museums and memory in Edith Wharton's modern novels -- Nella Larsen, librarian at 135th Street -- Accidents happen in Marianne Moore's native habitat -- Finding freedom from museums and libraries in Ruth Benedict's poetry -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman's close readings of four modernist writers--Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Marianne Moore, and Ruth Benedict--she studied the that modernist women writers were simultaneously critical of and shaped by these institutions. From the Modernist Annex offers new and critically significant ways of understanding these writers and their texts. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
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Larsen, Nella.
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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
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Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
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Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948. (OCoLC)fst00009969
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Larsen, Nella. (OCoLC)fst00012382
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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972. (OCoLC)fst00005315
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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. (OCoLC)fst00048127
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Women authors, American.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Libraries and women -- United States -- History.
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Museums and women -- United States -- History.
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Libraries in literature.
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Museums in literature.
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Libraries -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Museums -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Libraries and women. (OCoLC)fst00997597
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Libraries in literature. (OCoLC)fst00997598
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Libraries -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00997445
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Museums and women. (OCoLC)fst01030219
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Museums in literature. (OCoLC)fst01030221
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Museums -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01030203
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Women authors, American. (OCoLC)fst01177210
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roffman, Karin. From the modernist annex. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009036280 |
| ISBN |
9780817383961 (electronic bk.) |
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0817383964 (electronic bk.) |
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