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Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-95961-7

ISBN: 978-1-349-95960-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 30, 2019

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Introduction: Technicity and the American Techno-City

Goody, Alex

Pages: 1 –44

[New York was proclaimed as the preeminent technological city of the early twentieth century and witnessed the growth of the distinctive commercialized leisure and popular cultures of the period. Across the early years of the century quotidian and contingent amusements were transformed into...
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Let’s Go Shopping

Goody, Alex

Pages: 45 –92

[The popular leisure cultures and spaces of New York examined in this book are permeated by women’s bodies and they instigate the modernity that is most directly expressed and embodied in the poetry of women writers. This is palpably the case with the modern cultures of consumerism. Focusing on...
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Amusing Spaces

Goody, Alex

Pages: 93 –145

[New York’s Coney Island offered an escape from the city into a zone of mechanical play and carnivalesque amusements in the early twentieth century. In a different mode Greenwich Village, was emerging in the 1910s as an area of a different kind of escape, into bohemian living, and artistic and...
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Dancing Bodies

Goody, Alex

Pages: 147 –191

[Contemporary dance forms and cultures posed a powerful challenge to rigid and normative constructions of femininity in the early twentieth century. This chapter argues that the core impetus for imagining new, mobile feminine selves was the technology that modernized dancing—the technological...
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Feminine Projections

Goody, Alex

Pages: 193 –244

[Much existing work on modernism and cinema tends to emphasize particular writers (Joyce, Woolf) and also to foreground the interactions between the avant-garde and early film. In contrast this chapter focuses on popular cinema, on women in the emergence of the star system, and on the...
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Sound Machines

Goody, Alex

Pages: 245 –292

[The recent upsurge of work in modernist radio studies and modernist sound studies have brought a new focus on sound technologies to bear on the literary and cultural environment of the early twentieth century. This chapter considers the technological soundscape of modernism and then, focusing on...
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Epilogue: Digital Humanities and Posthuman Feminist Modernism

Goody, Alex

Pages: 293 –298

[This book closes by turning to our contemporary wireless world and the place of modernist women within it, culminating in an epilogue that considers the uncanny presence of the women of modernism in digital technologies and their position in the archives and practices of contemporary digital...

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