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Freewomen and supermen : Edwardian radicals and literary modernism / Anne Fernihough.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford ; UK : Oxford University Press, 2013.Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780199668625
Other title:
  • Freewomen & supermen
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.90091 23 FER
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Contents:
Introduction: the unbounded self 1. Superbeings in suburbia: anarchism and the rejection of literary realism 2. Mind over the masses: the emergence of stream-of-consciousness writing 3. 'Flying by those nets': aspirations and limits in post-Edwardian fiction 4. Eugene and hygiene: early modernist poetics 5. Sex in superworld 6. Transcending the flesh: vegetarianism, diet-reform, and pure living 7. Postscript: back down to earth
Summary: 'Freewomen and Supermen' examines the progressive, innovative, and sometimes wildly eccentric nature of radical thought in the Edwardian period and shows how Edwardian radical thought was to play a crucial role in the development of literary modernism.
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Introduction: the unbounded self 1. Superbeings in suburbia: anarchism and the rejection of literary realism 2. Mind over the masses: the emergence of stream-of-consciousness writing 3. 'Flying by those nets': aspirations and limits in post-Edwardian fiction 4. Eugene and hygiene: early modernist poetics 5. Sex in superworld 6. Transcending the flesh: vegetarianism, diet-reform, and pure living 7. Postscript: back down to earth

'Freewomen and Supermen' examines the progressive, innovative, and sometimes wildly eccentric nature of radical thought in the Edwardian period and shows how Edwardian radical thought was to play a crucial role in the development of literary modernism.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-272) and index.

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