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Ordinary matters : modernist women's literature and photography / Lorraine Sim.
Author
Sim, Lorraine
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
©2016
Description
xiv, 228 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR116 .S56 2016
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Subject(s)
English literature
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Great Britain
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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English literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Literature and photography
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Women photographers
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Women photographers
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Great Britain
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History
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20th century
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Visual perception in literature
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Summary note
"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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Ordinary Matters, Modernity and Women's Modernism
"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.
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ISBN
9781501314308 ((hbk.))
1501314300 ((hardcover))
1501346458 ((paperback))
9781501346453 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016000137
OCLC
940281347
Other standard number
40026930248
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