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

Author
Sim, Lorraine [Browse]
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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    "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.
    ISBN
    • 9781501314308 ((hbk.))
    • 1501314300 ((hardcover))
    • 1501346458 ((paperback))
    • 9781501346453 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016000137
    OCLC
    940281347
    Other standard number
    • 40026930248
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