Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness »

Maren Linett teaches at Purdue University, where she specializes in modern British fiction in the broader context of Anglo-American modernism. She has published articles in The Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and Twentieth-Century Literature, and has edited a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies entitled 'Modernism's Jews/Jewish Modernisms'.

An analysis of the cultural meanings of Jewishness in the work of Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and others.

Introduction: Imagined Jews and the shape of feminist modernism;

1. 'Strip each statement of its money motive': Jews and the ideal of disinterested art in Warner, Rhys, and Woolf;
2. Transformations of supersessionism in Woolf and Richardson;
3. Adding bathrooms, fomenting revolutions: modernity and Jewishness in Woolf and Warner;
4. The race must go on: gender, Jewishness, and racial continuity in Richardson and Barnes;
5. The 'No time region': time, trauma, and Jewishness in Barnes and Rhys;
6. Metatextual Jewishness: shaping feminist modernism; Bibliography.