Cultural Misfits: Gender in Early Twentieth-century Literature - Professor Georgia Johnston

Gender and literature in the early 20th century, from W.B. Yeats’ ’Crazy Jane’ to Gertrude Stein’s ’Patriarchal Poetry’, covering T. S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, H.D. and others along the way: Early 20th-century literature and social sciences contested with one another over gender formations. While social sciences created taxonomies of normalised and medicalised difference, modernist literature simultaneou