Women and Modernism

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Some of the most highly praised and canonized women authors emerged during the modernist period. This course investigates their literature and think about why this is such a fruitful literary period for them. While the authors in this course write from different traditions and disparate positions, they are also responding to common events and ideologies. Authors could include Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell, Carson McCullers, Nella Larson, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Wolfe, Stevie Smith, Jean Rhys, and Djuna Barnes among others.