Gendering Modernism : A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon.

Intro -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction: What Sort of Rebellion? -- Modernism: A Definition -- Scholarship on Modernism and Gender -- Organization of the Book -- Chapter 1 Modernism before the Great War -- Awakenings: Early Modernist Experiments -- Fin-de-Siècle: Ends and Beginnings -- Chapter 2 Modernism Flourishes -- The Great War -- Dada -- Surrealism -- Expressionism -- The Modernist Novel after 1918 -- The Tramp: Masculinity Reimagined -- Cabaret: Gender Transgressions -- Chapter 3 The Modernist Canon: How Did it Come About? -- Schools, Academies, Guilds, and Journals -- Collecting -- Shaping the Canon: Art Critics, Historians, Curators, and Feminist Scholars -- Chapter 4 A New Set of Criteria: Rebellion, Rejection, and Reimagining Gender -- The Suffragists -- Psychology -- Sexology -- Eugenics -- Nudism -- Anarchism -- Communism -- Fascism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Prologue -- Introduction: What Sort of Rebellion? -- Chapter 1 Modernism before the Great War -- Chapter 2 Modernism Flourishes -- Chapter 3 The Modernist Canon:How Did it Come About? -- Chapter 4 A New Set of Criteria: Rebellion, Rejection, and Reimagining Gender -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index.

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