Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)

"Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject. Focusing on American women writers and particularly on the city of New York, the book argues that the poetry of modernist women that engages with, examines or critiques the new leisure technologies of their era is fundamentally changed by the encounter with that technology. The chapters in the book focus on shopping, advertising, dance, film, radio and phonography, on city spaces such as Coney Island, Greenwich Village and Harlem, and on poetry that embraces the linguistic and formal innovations of modernism whilst paying close attention to the embodied politics of gender. The technologized city, and the leisure cultures and media forms emerging from it, enabled modernist women writers to re-imagine forms of lyric embodiment, inspired by the impact of technology on modern ideas of selfhood and subjectivity"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: Technicity and the American Techno-City (Alex Goody)....Pages 1-44 Let’s Go Shopping (Alex Goody)....Pages 45-92 Amusing Spaces (Alex Goody)....Pages 93-145 Dancing Bodies (Alex Goody)....Pages 147-191 Feminine Projections (Alex Goody)....Pages 193-244 Sound Machines (Alex Goody)....Pages 245-292 Epilogue: Digital Humanities and Posthuman Feminist Modernism (Alex Goody)....Pages 293-298 Back Matter ....Pages 299-312