White Male Disability in Modernist Literature

White Male Disability in Modernist Literature
Author: Martina Simone Kübler
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2023-01-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004529381

White men represent power in white supremacist patriarchy. What happens when literary texts depict them as disabled? Embodying more than just crises of masculinity, white male disability is a reckoning with old orders, provoking new perspectives on life and love in the modern era.

Bodies of Modernism

Bodies of Modernism
Author: Maren Linett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2017
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0472053310

Reveals the links, both positive and negative, between disabled bodies and aspects of modernism and modernity through readings of a wide range of literary texts

White Male Disability in Modernist Literature

White Male Disability in Modernist Literature
Author: Martina Simone Kübler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Disabilities in literature
ISBN: 9789004520073

White men represent power in white supremacist patriarchy. What happens when literary texts depict them as disabled? Embodying more than just crises of masculinity, white male disability is a reckoning with old orders, provoking new perspectives on life and love in the modern era.

Disability and Modern Fiction

Disability and Modern Fiction
Author: A. Hall
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2011-11-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230355471

Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose.

Grete Meisel-Hess

Grete Meisel-Hess
Author: Helga Thorson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2022
Genre: Feminist literature
ISBN: 1640141030

Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prague to Jewish parents and raised in Vienna, she became a literary presence with her 1902 novel Fanny Roth. Influenced by many of her contemporaries, she also criticized their notions of gender and sexuality. Relocating to Berlin, she continued to write fiction and began publishing on sexology and the women's movement. Helga Thorson's book combines a literary-cultural exploration of modernism in Vienna and Berlin with a biography of Meisel-Hess and a critical analysis of her works. Focusing on Meisel-Hess's negotiations of feminism, modernism, and Jewishness, it illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism. Analyzing Meisel-Hess's fiction as well as her sexological studies, Thorson argues that Meisel-Hess posited herself as both a "New Woman" and the writer of the "New Woman." The book draws on extensive archival research that uncovered a large number of new sources, including an unpublished drama and a variety of documents and letters scattered in collections across Europe. Until now there have been only limited secondary sources about Meisel-Hess, most containing errors and omissions regarding her biography. This is the first book on Meisel-Hess in English.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence

The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence
Author: Annalise Grice
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2024-01-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350253758

Showcasing the most exciting contemporary scholarship on D. H. Lawrence, this comprehensive collection serves as both an overview of the field at present as well as an examination of new approaches and directions in D. H. Lawrence studies. Explicitly interdisciplinary in its focus and covering fields such as Bibliotherapy, sustainability and animal studies, this book: · Provides new insights into Lawrence as a transnational figure whose work responds to global cultures; · Considers Lawrence in light of broader developments within modernist studies; · Examines Lawrence's work in relation to material cultures and his engagements with print, publishing and literary networks. Contributors are comprised of established international experts in D. H. Lawrence studies as well as newer voices. This collection provides a comprehensive resource for literature students at all levels, from undergraduates and postgraduates to scholars and advanced readers interested in developing their knowledge of D. H. Lawrence.

Disabled Literature

Disabled Literature
Author: Miles Beauchamp
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1627345302

This book, by Beauchamp, Chung, Mogilner and Svetlana Zakinova examines how authors have used characters with disabilities to elicit emotional reactions in readers; additionally, how writers use disabilities to present individuals as "the other" rather than simply as people. Finally, the book discusses how literature has changed, or is changing, with regards to its presentation of those with a disability.

Men and masculinities in modern Britain

Men and masculinities in modern Britain
Author: Matt Houlbrook
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2024-01-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526174685

Men and masculinities provides an engaging, accessible and provocative introduction to histories of masculinity for all readers interested in contemporary gender politics. The book offers a critical overview of ongoing historiographical debates and the historical making of men’s lives and identities and ideas of masculinity between the 1890s and the present day. In setting out a new agenda for the field, it makes an ambitious argument for the importance of writing histories which are present-centred and politically engaged. This means that the book engages head-on with ferocious debates about men’s social position and the status of masculinity in contemporary public life. In establishing a critical genealogy for the proliferation of this crisis talk, it sets out new ways of understanding how men’s lives and ideas of masculinity have changed over time while patriarchy and male power have persisted.

Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny

Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny
Author: Mark Spilka
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780803235267

Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny confronts the entrenched mystique surrounding the hard drinker, bullfighter, and creator of characters steeled by their own code. Spilka stresses Hemingway's lifelong dependence on and secret identification with women, and in doing so shatters the myths of male bonding and heroic lives of "men without women." He develops the biographical, literary, and cultural implications of Hemingway's lifelong quarrel with androgyny to reveal a more psychologically complex man and writer than the mystique has allowed.

Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature

Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature
Author: Alex Tankard
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319714465

Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse. Focusing on the period 1821-1912, in which modern ideas about disease, disability, and eugenics emerged to challenge Romanticism and sentimentality, Invalid Lives examines representations of nineteenth-century consumptives as disabled people. Letters, self-help books, eugenic propaganda, and press interviews with consumptive artists suggest that people with tuberculosis were disabled as much by oppressive social structures and cultural stereotypes as by the illness itself. Invalid Lives asks whether disruptive consumptive characters in Wuthering Heights, Jude the Obscure, The Idiot, and Beatrice Harraden’s 1893 New Woman novel Ships That Pass in the Night represented critical, politicised models of disabled identity (and disabled masculinity) decades before the modern disability movement.