Jody Cardinal, Deirdre E. Egan-Ryan, and Julia Lisella (eds.), Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement

The “new modernist studies”, coined by Mao and Walkowitz in their titular article in the May 2008 issue of PMLA, has been a boon for scholars who study women writers. As modernism has “softened its definitional gaze and relinquished its gatekeeping function” (451), as stated by Paul Saint-Amour in 2018, its scholarship has blossomed in variation and kind. An interest in gender, i.e. women writers, a long-policed, tacit demarcation in literary modernism, has increased and continues to prosper ...